Tag: gc

IntelliJ on steroids with G1 GC

Jun 15, 2018

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Lately, I noticed that IntelliJ started to pause for quite some time during it’s GC cycles, and that it was very frequent when I was editing three files (over 1.2k LOC each) split vertically. The current version of IntelliJ runs on a bundled version of Java 1.8, who’s default garbage collector is Parallel GC. While…