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by Dennis C. Dietrich
Clarifying how the .NET GC identifies objects to collect once and for all... hopefully...
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An under-utilised setting that can offer substantial performance gains
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Use of System.WeakReference for self-cleanable registration of (short-life) objects
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How to implement a simple garbage collector in C#?

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How to implement a simple garbage collector in C#?
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Discussion about problems with Garbage Collector and possible alternative solutions
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Use of System.WeakReference for self-cleanable registration of (short-life) objects
by Ben Hall (failingfast.io)
An under-utilised setting that can offer substantial performance gains

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Garbage collection 

13 Sep 2016 by matt warren
How to prevent .NET Garbage collections with the TryStartNoGCRegion API
15 Sep 2016 by matt warren
There is an update to this post, based on feedback I received.In my last post I talked about the techniques that the Roslyn team used to minimise the effect of the Garbage Collector (GC). Firstly I guess its worth discussing what the actual issue is.GC Pauses and LatencyIn early versions of
15 Sep 2016 by matt warren
This series is an attempt to learn more about how a real-life “Garbage Collector” (GC) works internally, i.e., not so much “what it does”, but “how it does it” at a low-level.
15 Sep 2016 by matt warren
GC pauses and safe points
15 Sep 2016 by matt warren
Measuring performance accurately is hard. But it is a whole lot easier if someone with experience takes the time to explain your mistakes to you! This is an update to my previous post.
17 Mar 2017 by Arthur Minduca
This post tells you about the absolute bare minimum that every programmer should know about memory management.
15 Sep 2016 by matt warren
As part of an ongoing attempt to learn more about how a real-life Garbage Collector (GC) works (see part 1) and after being inspired by Julia Evans’ excellent post gzip + poetry = awesome I spent a some time writing a tool to enable a live visualisation of the .NET GC in action.
16 Nov 2014 by Ronnie Mukherjee
This is a beginner's guide to garbage collection in .NET