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

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8. Garbage Collection – Mark Phase

Konrad Kokosa¹  , Christophe Nasarre² and Kevin Gosse²

(1)

Warsaw, Poland

(2)

Paris, France

 

In the previous chapter, you have gained knowledge about some general GC topics, like when it is triggered and how it decides which generation should be collected. Let’s now move into the details of the first main GC phase – Mark phase.

At this stage, the GC has decided which generations will be collected. It’s time to investigate which objects may be reclaimed. As mentioned before, the CLR implements a tracing Garbage Collector. It starts from various ...