ASSISTED GARBAGE COLLECTION IN A VIRTUAL MACHINE

This application relates to receiving, by a processing device executing a virtual machine, bytecode including an object to be loaded into a memory space, the object being tagged with a garbage collection descriptor. The garbage collection descriptor is generated according to an annotation to the object in a source code. The application further provides for determining, in view of the garbage collection descriptor, a region of the memory space to store the object, in which the memory space includes a first region to store a first set of objects that have survived less than a determined number of rounds of garbage collection and a second region to store a second set of objects that have survived at least the determined number of rounds of garbage collection in the first region. The application further provides for storing the object in the region of the memory space and adding the object to one of the first objects or the second set of objects in view of the region.