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January 2009 - Posts

Back To Basics: Mark and Sweep Garbage Collection

This post is Part 4 in the series of posts on Garbage Collection (GC). Please see the index here. Recap of definition I’ll quickly repeat couple of definitions which are used in this post Object : This is a unit of storage on the heap. It generally means

Back To Basics: Reference Counting Garbage Collection

This is Part 3 in a series of post on GC, visit the list here . Reference counting (refcounting) GC is one of the two primary GC mechanisms widely used. The basic workings of this GC is pretty simple and based on counting the number of reference to a

Back to basic: Series on dynamic memory management

After becoming the .NET Compact Framework (.NETCF) dynamic memory management module owner I am continually learning a lot about the subject. Based on hallway discussion I figured out that a lot of developers are not very clear about the subject and would

Windows 7 rocks

Ok I know this blog is not about Windows but I thought I’d share the love. To me it looks like as is someone has combed through the entire user experience and fixed most of the stuff that bothered me. The taskbar change alone are good enough for the upgrade.
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Back to basics: Why use garbage collection

This post is Part 2 in the series of posts on Garbage Collection (GC). Please see the index here. Garbage Collection does exactly what it’s more fancier name “Automatic dynamic memory management” suggests. As I discussed in my last post on Memory Allocation
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Back To Basics: Memory allocation, a walk down the history

This post is Part 1 in the series of posts on Garbage Collection (GC). Please see the index here. Most languages we deal with today support a whole bunch of different memory allocation options. We have an option to use static allocation, stack-allocation
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