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Delphi for .NET Developer’s Guide
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Delphi for .NET Developer’s Guide

by Xavier Pacheco
May 2004
Intermediate to advanced
888 pages
22h 31m
English
Sams
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Performance Issues Regarding Finalization

The GC, although it makes life easier for programmers, requires that programmers follow certain guidelines with regard to finalizers.

When an object has a finalizer, it is kept in a global list called the finalization list. The GC uses the list to determine which objects need to have their Finalize() method called during garbage collection. During an initial run of the GC on generation 0, the GC will enumerate through the finalization list to determine if any unreferenced objects can be released. If so, a reference to them is placed into the Freachable Queue and the reference in the Finalization List is removed. The Freachable Queue (pronounced “F-reachable” and meaning finalize-reachable) is a separate ...

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