[y0y]

The new breed of garbage collectors may change this significantly for the better. They need to be explicitly enabled, but there is a GC (G1) that may be better suited for desktop applications (low latency pauses, relinquishes memory to the OS more frequently while idle, etc.) available in Java 11.

[lemagedurage]

It's been the default GC since Java 9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage-first_collector

[y0y]

Ah, I'm confusing its availability with Shenandoah and zgc.

Unfortunately, the last time I used IntelliiJ it came with its own JDK8. Is that still the case, I wonder?

[lemagedurage]

I just ran an update, IDEA and PyCharm use OpenJDK 11, Android Studio still uses 1.8.

[isbvhodnvemrwvn]

They are all concurrent GCs though. You pay for the lower pauses with significant throughput hits.