ZERO-COPY MATURING OF LARGE OBJECTS IN GENERATIONAL HEAP WITH COPYING COLLECTION

A method for performing garbage collection promotion, comprising determining that an age of a large young object is greater than a predetermined tenuring threshold, wherein the predetermined tenuring threshold specifies an age beyond which objects are promoted, setting a plurality of types of a plurality of large memory regions from young to old to promote the large young object to a large old object, wherein the plurality of large memory regions host the large young object, scavenging references of the large old object, wherein the large old object is a large promoted object, scanning a large young object list to identify a plurality of unvisited large young objects, wherein a plurality of visited bits of the plurality of unvisited large young objects are unset, and releasing a plurality of unvisited large memory regions, wherein the unvisited large memory regions host the plurality of unvisited large young objects.