Safepoint
A safepoint is a place in Java code where a Java thread may halt its execution. The safepoint contains information for the runtime that isn't available in other places, such as which registers contain objects (needed by the GC). The safepoint also guarantees that everything in the thread context is either an object, an internal pointer to an object or not an object. No intermediate states exist.
See also Livemap.
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