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the JVM (HotSpot) also uses this approach, the young generation is handled by a copying GC while the older one(s) use mark & sweep.

(to be fair, I believe this _was_ the default GC option, but it's not anymore, and there were at least 3 different young generation GC algorithms that used copying, so it's a bit more nuanced)




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