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This paper describes the Azul® garbage collection algorithm and its benefits as compared to traditional garbage collection approaches.

Using a combination of software techniques and hardware-assisted features, the Azul garbage collector allows existing and future Java applications to scale to tens of gigabytes of memory without degrading response-time or application throughput. The parallel nature of Azul collector allows a single application instance to scale to tens and hundreds of processor cores without sacrificing efficiency.