In this chapter, we covered some impressive new features of the Java platform introduced with Java 9, 10, and 11. We focused on javac, JDK libraries, and various test suites. Memory management improvements, including heap space efficiencies, memory allocation, and improved garbage collection represent a powerful new set of Java platform enhancements. Changes regarding the compilation process that result in greater efficiencies were part of our chapter. We also covered important improvements, such as with the compilation process, type testing, annotations, and automated runtime compiler tests.
In the next chapter, we will look at several minor language enhancements introduced in Java 9, 10, and 11.
