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    22 Test garbage collector compaction.
       
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    24 The test starts several threads which create objects using
       
    25 given garbage producer until OOM. The references are kept
       
    26 in an array. The references to even elements are cleared
       
    27 and objects of double size are created until OOM. The garbage
       
    28 collector will have to compact free space to free memory for
       
    29 new objects.
       
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    31 The tests differ by object types used for first and second phase:
       
    32 - _Arrays tests randomly use arrays of basic types and Object[] arrays.
       
    33 - _Strings tests use random strings.
       
    34 - _NonbranchyTree tests use nonbranchy trees.
       
    35 - _InternedStrings use interned strings.
       
    36 - _ArrayOf tests use array with two elements for second phase,
       
    37 the elements of which point to objects of same type.
       
    38 - _TwoFields tests use object with two fields for second phase,
       
    39 which point to objects of same type.
       
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    41 Each *1 test is the single-threaded version of corresponding test.
       
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    43 The Humongous tests are similar to compact tests. However they used
       
    44 the fixed size of objects which allocation requre compaction. The
       
    45 size is specific for G1 GC (about 1M and 5M) and require humongous
       
    46 object creation in G1.