Programming Microsoft® Visual C#® 2005: The Language

Chapter 14. Memory Management

In this chapter:

Unmanaged Resources

Finalizers

IDisposable.Dispose

Weak Reference

GC Class

Nonsecure Code

Memory management is an essential aspect of every program except the most trivial of applications. There are different classifications of memory. Registers, static data area (SDA), stack, thread local storage, heap, virtual, and file storage are some of the categories of memory. Registers hold data that require quick and efficient memory access. Critical system information, such as the instruction and stack pointer, are stored in registers. Static and global values are automatically stored in the SDA. Stacks are thread-specific and hold the context information (stack frames) of current functions. Local variables, parameters, ...