perm gen : Java Glossary

2008-11-17 by Roedy Green ©1996-2009 Canadian Mind Products
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perm gen: ake permgen aka Permanent Generation heap. In Sun’s JVM, the interned Strings are stored in a special pool of RAM called the perm gen, where the JVM also loads classes and stores natively compiled code. However, the intered Strings behave no differently than had they been stored in the ordinary object heap.
This an internal feature of the run time that is transparent to the program. Not all JVMs necessarily have a separate perm gen. The only time it becames a concern is when you configure heap and stack space on the java.execommand line.
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