Java Garbage Collection: What is the young generation, old generation, and permanent generation?

Tremaine Eto
Dev Genius
Published in
6 min readApr 6, 2021

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If you’re looking for a basic look into what young generation, old generation, and permanent generation means in terms of Java, then you’re in the right place.

Generations? What are we talking about here?

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