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overview of the storage management system
glossary of terms found in the HotSpot sources and documentation

The JVM manages its own address space for several purposes.

Java heap
Metadata heap
Code cache
Compiler and runtime temporary storage

Most Java objects are allocated using "TLABs", which is short for thread local allocation buffer.