Java Garbage Collection Distilled

Note: Often Hotspot cannot achieve these targets and will silently continue without warning, having missed its target by a great margin.

Latency is a distribution across events. It may be acceptable to have an increased average latency to reduce the worse-case latency, or make it less frequent. We should not interpret the term “real-time” to mean the lowest possible latency; rather it refers to having a deterministic latency regardless of throughput.

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