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Unexpected Garbage Collection Results Courtesy of Your Compiler

by Dennis C. Dietrich

Clarifying how the .NET GC identifies objects to collect once and for all... hopefully...

.NET Performance Tip – Know Your Garbage Collection Options

by Ben Hall (failingfast.io)

An under-utilised setting that can offer substantial performance gains

Self-Cleanable Collection and Self-Cleanable Event

by Vassili Kravtchenko-Berejnoi

Use of System.WeakReference for self-cleanable registration of (short-life) objects

Implementing a Simple Garbage Collector in C#

by Nicolas DESCARTES

How to implement a simple garbage collector in C#?

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Implementing a Simple Garbage Collector in C#

by Nicolas DESCARTES

How to implement a simple garbage collector in C#?

Discussing Alternative Memory Management Strategy for .NET

by Mark Pelf

Discussion about problems with Garbage Collector and possible alternative solutions

Self-Cleanable Collection and Self-Cleanable Event

by Vassili Kravtchenko-Berejnoi

Use of System.WeakReference for self-cleanable registration of (short-life) objects

.NET Performance Tip – Know Your Garbage Collection Options

by Ben Hall (failingfast.io)

An under-utilised setting that can offer substantial performance gains

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Garbage collection

A Super-Simplified Explanation of .NET Garbage Collection

19 Aug 2018 by Ben Hall (failingfast.io)

This article is super-simplified, look at .NET garbage collection, with loads of intentional technical omissions. It aims to provide a baseline level of understanding that a typical C# developer realistically needs for their day-to-day work.

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Discussing Alternative Memory Management Strategy for .NET

26 Apr 2022 by Mark Pelf

Discussion about problems with Garbage Collector and possible alternative solutions

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How to Call CoEEShutDownCom in .NET Framework 4.0 and Use It to Solve Hang Issue When Connection Point Being Used Between .NET and Native COM Object

23 Apr 2016 by Simon M Li

Force .NET Framework release RCW objects when necessary

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Implementing a Simple Garbage Collector in C#

30 Jan 2024 by Nicolas DESCARTES

How to implement a simple garbage collector in C#?

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To Heap or not to Heap; That’s the Large Object Question?

11 Jul 2017 by Doug Duerner, Yeon-Chang Wang

In this article we explored a theory; would it be better to not utilize a heap construct when dealing with very large objects in .NET, in order to avoid Large Object Heap (LOH) fragmentation?

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Unexpected Garbage Collection Results Courtesy of Your Compiler

9 Aug 2013 by Dennis C. Dietrich

Clarifying how the .NET GC identifies objects to collect once and for all... hopefully...

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