Pro .NET Memory Management: For Better Code, Performance, and Scalability

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K. Kokosa et al.Pro .NET Memory Managementhttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0453-3_5

5. Memory Partitioning

Konrad Kokosa¹  , Christophe Nasarre² and Kevin Gosse²

(1)

Warsaw, Poland

(2)

Paris, France

 

You have already learned some basic memory-related facts about .NET internals in the previous chapter. We’ve looked inside the memory of a process running managed code. As you have seen, there are many various memory areas inside it. Some of them are used internally by the .NET runtime itself. Some of them are related to the operating system virtual memory management. But the most important ones for us are often denoted as the “Managed Heap.”

As it was explained ...