[_old_dude_]

They are two new GCs Shenandoah and ZGC.

Indirect pointers or Brooks pointers has it is called were used in Shenandoah v1 to allow an application thread that perform a read to not move the object during the evacuation phase. This strategy has been removed in Shenandoah v2 to have a better throughput so now both read and write by the application move the object during the evacuation phase.

ZGC has never used Brooks pointers.

[MaxBarraclough]

I had to look up 'Brooks pointers'. For anyone else in this position, these two blog posts seem a good place to start: https://rkennke.wordpress.com/2013/10/23/shenandoah-gc-brook... , https://blog.plan99.net/modern-garbage-collection-part-2-1c8...