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Garbage-First (G1) is a server-oriented Java garbage collector designed to balance throughput with predictable pause times. Instead of treating the heap as a few fixed contiguous generations, G1 divides it into equal-sized regions and assigns roles such as Eden, Survivor, and Old dynamically.

Java garbage collection reclaims heap objects that are no longer reachable from a set of GC roots. Roots include active thread stacks, static fields, JNI references, and JVM-internal structures.