The JVM has several swappable GCs, both mature and new. There is plenty of documentation out there about them. Go has (had?) libgc and is going to get a slight

The JVM has several swappable GCs, both mature and new. There is plenty of documentation out there about them. Go has (had?) libgc and is going to get a slightly better GC. I believe it's not even generational. Again, there are plenty of articles about that, especially about the recent and prominent bug on 32bit platforms.