Java G1 garbage collection in production

Question

Since Java 7 is going to use the new G1 garbage collection by default is Java going to be able to handle an order of magnitude larger heap without supposed \"devastating\" G

Answer 1

G1 makes the application a lot more agile: the latancy of the application will raise - the app can be named as "soft-real-time". This is done by replacing two kinds of GC runs (small minor ones and one big on Tenured Gen) to equal-sized small ones.

For more details look at this: http://geekroom.de/java/java-expertise-g1-fur-java-7/