--- title: ZGC: A Decade of Redefining Java Performance | daily.dev description: ZGC has evolved over a decade from an experimental feature in JDK 11 to a production-ready concurrent garbage collector. It performs all heavy GC tasks... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/zgc-a-decade-of-redefining-java-performance-vh5m1hxsj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: ZGC: A Decade of Redefining Java Performance | daily.dev og:description: ZGC has evolved over a decade from an experimental feature in JDK 11 to a production-ready concurrent garbage collector. It performs all heavy GC tasks... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/zgc-a-decade-of-redefining-java-performance-vh5m1hxsj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/VH5M1HxsJ.png og:image:alt: ZGC: A Decade of Redefining Java Performance og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # ZGC: A Decade of Redefining Java Performance **[Inside Java](https://daily.dev/sources/inside_java)** · 1 min read · 4 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary ZGC has evolved over a decade from an experimental feature in JDK 11 to a production-ready concurrent garbage collector. It performs all heavy GC tasks alongside application threads, achieving sub-millisecond pause times. 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