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Re:Java 27 Released by pron on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @09:08AM (#49726443)
When CPU utilisation is low, the heap can be set much smaller. Many don't know that, so in the next year we'll have the VM do it automatically: https://openjdk.org/jeps/8377305

The amount of memory a Java program uses is whatever the setting is, not how much it "needs", because the need depends on the preference of the CPU/RAM tradeoff. But again, not many understand that, so we're making that automatic.

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Re:Java 27 Released by nixon_why69 on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @01:03PM (#49729888)
I'm sure both of the cases I'm thinking of could have been tuned better. Just saying that it's a default case that I've seen 2 places land, both of which had a lot of smart engineers following best practices. Maybe its food for thought for you in your position
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Re:Java 27 Released by pron on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @03:42PM (#49731897)
Yes, this is why we're doing automatic heap sizing :)
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