Tenuring to Oldspace

• The “age” of an object is tracked by counting the number of scavenges it survives

  • called its “generation”

• When an object reaches a certain age, it is moved to oldspace

  • called “tenuring” the object

• Oldspace is not garbage collected very often

  • objects that survive a while are likely to survive a long while, perhaps forever

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