Serial GC
E341110
HotSpot garbage collector
garbage collector
single-threaded garbage collector
stop-the-world garbage collector
Serial GC is a simple, single-threaded garbage collector in the HotSpot JVM designed primarily for small applications or environments with limited CPU resources.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Serial GC canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3245039 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Serial GC Context triple: [HotSpot JVM, notableGarbageCollector, Serial GC]
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A.
GC
GC is the post-nominal abbreviation for the George Cross, one of the United Kingdom’s highest civilian decorations for acts of great heroism and courage in extreme danger.
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B.
Orinoco garbage collector
Orinoco garbage collector is V8’s low-latency, incremental and concurrent garbage collection system designed to improve JavaScript performance and responsiveness.
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C.
GC&CS
GC&CS was the British government’s codebreaking and signals intelligence organization during World War II, best known for its work at Bletchley Park deciphering enemy communications.
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D.
JGCD
JGCD is a leading peer-reviewed aerospace engineering journal focusing on guidance, navigation, control, and dynamics of flight vehicles and space systems.
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E.
gc (Go compiler)
gc is the original standard Go compiler implementation, written in C and later superseded by the Go-based `cmd/compile` toolchain.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Serial GC Target entity description: Serial GC is a simple, single-threaded garbage collector in the HotSpot JVM designed primarily for small applications or environments with limited CPU resources.
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A.
GC
GC is the post-nominal abbreviation for the George Cross, one of the United Kingdom’s highest civilian decorations for acts of great heroism and courage in extreme danger.
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B.
Orinoco garbage collector
Orinoco garbage collector is V8’s low-latency, incremental and concurrent garbage collection system designed to improve JavaScript performance and responsiveness.
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C.
GC&CS
GC&CS was the British government’s codebreaking and signals intelligence organization during World War II, best known for its work at Bletchley Park deciphering enemy communications.
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D.
JGCD
JGCD is a leading peer-reviewed aerospace engineering journal focusing on guidance, navigation, control, and dynamics of flight vehicles and space systems.
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E.
gc (Go compiler)
gc is the original standard Go compiler implementation, written in C and later superseded by the Go-based `cmd/compile` toolchain.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
HotSpot garbage collector
ⓘ
garbage collector ⓘ single-threaded garbage collector ⓘ stop-the-world garbage collector ⓘ |
| affects |
application pause times
ⓘ
application throughput ⓘ |
| belongsTo |
HotSpot memory management subsystem
ⓘ
linked to:
G1 GC
|
| category | JVM garbage collection strategy ⓘ |
| collects |
old generation
ⓘ
young generation ⓘ |
| comparedWith |
CMS
ⓘ
G1 GC ⓘ Parallel GC ⓘ ZGC ⓘ |
| configuredBy | -XX:+UseSerialGC ⓘ |
| defaultIn | some older client JVM configurations ⓘ |
| designedFor |
environments with limited CPU resources
ⓘ
small applications ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
low overhead
ⓘ
predictable behavior ⓘ simple implementation ⓘ single-threaded old generation collection ⓘ single-threaded young generation collection ⓘ stop-the-world pauses ⓘ |
| hasLimitation |
does not use multiple cores for GC work
ⓘ
pause times increase with heap size ⓘ |
| implementationLanguage | C++ ⓘ |
| introducedIn | early HotSpot JVM versions ⓘ |
| languageRuntime | Java ⓘ |
| notDesignedFor |
highly concurrent server workloads
ⓘ
large heap sizes ⓘ |
| optimizedFor |
client-style workloads
ⓘ
single-processor machines ⓘ |
| partOf | HotSpot JVM ⓘ |
| pauseType | stop-the-world ⓘ |
| preferredWhen |
CPU resources are scarce
ⓘ
application is small and simple ⓘ |
| suitableFor |
development and testing on small machines
ⓘ
embedded systems with few cores ⓘ |
| supportedIn |
OpenJDK HotSpot JVM
ⓘ
linked to:
HotSpot JVM
Oracle HotSpot JVM ⓘ
linked to:
HotSpot JVM
|
| threadingModel | single-threaded ⓘ |
| tradeOff |
longer pause times for simplicity
ⓘ
throughput over pause-time optimization ⓘ |
| usedIn | Java Virtual Machine ⓘ |
| usesAlgorithm |
copying collection for young generation
ⓘ
mark-sweep-compact for old generation ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Serial GC Description of subject: Serial GC is a simple, single-threaded garbage collector in the HotSpot JVM designed primarily for small applications or environments with limited CPU resources.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.