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		gjvc on Dec 25, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Running IntelliJ Idea with JDK 17 for Better Rende... ZGC is available from JDK16, but is not compatible with AOTC, annoyingly, and the latter has been removed from JDK17. I have found that using AOTC for the java.base module makes IDE startup much smoother.

AnthonBerg on Dec 25, 2021 [–]

Ah, interesting. Thanks.

If useful: ZGC has actually been available on different platforms in earlier Java releases. Linux, Windows, and macOS didn’t all get ZGC at the same time.

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