https://devops-monk.com/tags/shenandoah/Recent content in Shenandoah on Devops MonkHugoen-usSun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://devops-monk.com/tutorials/java25/generational-shenandoah/Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://devops-monk.com/tutorials/java25/generational-shenandoah/GC Background: Why Generations Matter The Generational Hypothesis is the foundation of most modern GC design: Most objects die young. In a typical Java application, the vast majority of objects are short-lived: request/response objects, DTOs, builder instances, stream pipeline intermediates. They are created, used briefly, and then immediately eligible for collection. A GC that knows about this pattern can be far more efficient than one that treats all objects equally: