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Is the G1 garbage collector still considered experimental in recent versions of Java (6)? Is it safe and ready for production use?
EDIT: I am referring to Oracle JVM.
No as suggest this Oracle article, it’s still experimental. It will replace CMS but it seems that it’s not quite performant yet : Relative Performance of Java's Garbage First (G1) Garbage Collector?
EDIT :
So now the G1 is “fully supported” in JDK7u4, it not consider anymore as experimental, so I guess it’s production ready! .