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Konrad KokosaPro .NET Memory Managementhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4027-4_7

7. Garbage Collection - Introduction

Konrad Kokosa1 
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Warsaw, Poland
 

Welcome to the most important part of this book. Previous chapters have described quite broadly the subject of memory management. We have experienced some theoretical and hardware introduction. We also got to know a lot of details about the organization of memory in the .NET environment - how it is divided into segments and generations and how all this infrastructure works with the operating system. Much of this knowledge is valuable in itself, allowing us, for example, to diagnose problems with too many allocations or how to use different methods to avoid them.

However, it ...

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