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Ankur e189da79ba Generational ZGC vs G1 on JDK 25: benchmarks, internals and captured results
Complete companion suite for the ankurm.com guide. Everything was compiled and
executed on java 25.0.3+9-LTS-195 (AMD Ryzen 5 5600U, Windows 11); every file
under results/ is unedited program output.

Code
  latency/    open-loop latency harness that measures from intended arrival, so
              coordinated omission is accounted for rather than hidden. Reports
              response time and service time side by side; the gap reached 2910x
              on G1.
  jmh/        four microbenchmarks isolating one mechanism each: TLAB allocation,
              the ZGC load barrier (with a primitive-load control), the write
              barrier (with null / old-to-old / primitive controls), and promotion
              pressure.
  tuning/     provokes ZGC allocation stalls and reads its own JFR recording back,
              grouped by page class. jdk.ZAllocationStall is enabled without a
              threshold, because the 10 ms default hides most stalls.
  internals/  ZGC page classes vs G1 humongous, read from the live VM via
              HotSpotDiagnosticMXBean and jdk.ZPageAllocation events.
  analysis/   unified GC log parser that keeps stop-the-world pauses and
              concurrent phases in separate buckets.
  env/        environment capture; proves generational mode from JMX bean names.

Docs
  Eight chapters covering the JEP 439/474/490 timeline, colored pointers and both
  barriers, allocation stalls, a full flag reference, logging and JFR, benchmark
  methodology, corner cases, and a decision procedure.

Headline result (60 s, 20k req/s, 2 GB heap, ~585 MB live)
  p50               ZGC 0.006 ms   G1 0.005 ms
  p99.9             ZGC 1.437 ms   G1 95.169 ms
  total STW time    ZGC 1.503 ms   G1 1,139.624 ms
2026-07-31 08:47:16 +05:30

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GC log analysis: zgc-latency.log
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lines parsed : 2,247
young / minor cycles : 45
old / major cycles : 17
ZGC allocation stalls : 40
G1 evacuation failures : 0
full GCs : 0
STOP-THE-WORLD PAUSES (this is application freeze time)
count : 106
total : 1.503 ms
mean : 0.014 ms
p50 : 0.014 ms
p99 : 0.044 ms
max : 0.054 ms
by phase
Pause Mark Start (Major) n=8 total= 0.139 ms max= 0.021 ms
Pause Mark End n=38 total= 0.683 ms max= 0.044 ms
Pause Relocate Start n=38 total= 0.330 ms max= 0.021 ms
Pause Mark Start n=22 total= 0.351 ms max= 0.054 ms
CONCURRENT PHASES (application keeps running -- NOT freeze time)
Concurrent Mark n=38 total= 894.499 ms max= 78.403 ms
Concurrent Mark Free n=38 total= 0.097 ms max= 0.033 ms
Concurrent Reset Relocation Set n=38 total= 4.331 ms max= 0.934 ms
Concurrent Select Relocation Set n=38 total= 48.991 ms max= 5.372 ms
Concurrent Relocate n=38 total=1092.392 ms max=151.380 ms
Concurrent Process Non n=8 total= 5.635 ms max= 0.984 ms
Concurrent Remap Roots n=8 total= 10.919 ms max= 2.207 ms
Adding the block above to the pause block would be a category error:
concurrent time overlaps application execution by design.