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High-Performance Programming in C# and .NET
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High-Performance Programming in C# and .NET

by Jason Alls
July 2022
Intermediate to advanced
660 pages
12h 41m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 4: Memory Management

In this chapter, we will be looking at object generations and how to avoid memory issues, followed by a discussion on strong and weak references. Then, we will look at finalization and how we can suppress finalization by implementing the IDisposable pattern to clean up managed and unmanaged resources. Finally, we will take a high-level look at ways to avoid memory leaks.

In this chapter, we will be covering the following topics:

  • Object generations and avoiding memory issues: In this section, we learn about object generations and System.OutOfMemoryException. We learn how to predict out-of-memory errors before they happen by using the System.Runtime.MemoryFailPoint class.
  • Understanding long and short weak references ...
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