Java / Java Multithreading part II

What is JVM Safe-pointing?

When JVM needs to perform maintenance, it gets exclusive access pausing all the application threads and also save threads and its state. which is called safe-pointing.

Safe-pointing is performed when doing garbage collection, code cache maintenance.

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Java / Java Multithreading part II

What is JVM Safe-pointing?

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