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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

• Feedback on making G1 the default collector in JDK 9

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