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Dissecting the CPU-memory relationship in garbage collection (OpenJDK 26)
The author of Java 26's MemoryMXBean.getTotalGcCpuTime() analyzes the CPU-memory trade-off and why pause times fail to capture explicit GC cost.
Jonas Norlinder
Oracle JVM Engineer. GC researcher. Empirical research and deep dives into the OpenJDK HotSpot mainline, ZGC, and Java performance.
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