Java garbage collector proposal aimed at performance testing

Java could be getting a garbage collector that allocates but does not reclaim memory, providing special testing benefits.
A draft Java proposal recently floated named Epsilon GC calls for development of a garbage collector that handles only memory allocation. Authored by OpenJDK contributor Aleksey Shipilev, a principal software engineer at Red Hat, the proposal is described as offering an "arbitrarily low-overhead garbage (non)-collector." Shipilev hopes to provide a passive runtime garbage co