August 2018 – Eclipse OpenJ9 Blog

Release 0.9.0 is now available!

Posted on August 15, 2018August 16, 2018 by Shelley Lambert

Time for a little celebration, with all the hard-working and dedicated people that contributed to the OpenJ9 0.9.0 Release (source). Binaries are now available for download at AdoptOpenJDK: OpenJDK 8 with OpenJ9 0.9.0 (compliant JCK-certified binaries, functional/regression/system/jck tested) OpenJDK 9 with OpenJ9 0.9.0 for posterity, no future releases (feature complete, functional/regression/system tested) OpenJDK 10 with OpenJ9 0.9.0 (feature complete,…

gcpolicy:nogc

Posted on August 2, 2018August 2, 2018 by linhucaibm

In Eclipse OpenJ9 release Version 0.9.0, a new gcpolicy:nogc is supported for Java 8 and above. The new gcpolicy:nogc is implemented based on the requirement of JDK Enhancement Proposal 318: Epsilon: A No-Op Garbage Collector. It maintains a specific garbage collector that handles only memory allocation and heap expansion, but doesn’t actually reclaim any memory back….