What Actually Happens During Garbage Collection: Tri-Color Marking, Write Barriers, and Why RSS Stays High

If you ask most developers how garbage collection works, you usually get one of two answers: "It uses reference counting and deletes objects when their count hits zero." (Almost no high-performance production runtime uses this for general heap management.) "It pauses the application, scans everything in memory, deletes unused objects, and hands... Weiterlesen: What Actually Happens During Garbage Collection: Tri-Color Marking, W…