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Friday, February 20, 2009 4:42 PM

Back To Basics: Handling overflow in mark stage

This post is Part 7 in the series of posts on Garbage Collection (GC). Please see the index here. Let’s first recap the basic algorithm of the mark-sweep garbage collection . In C like pseudo code the algorithm looks like void GC() { HaltAllThreads();
Posted by abhinaba | 3 Comments
Friday, February 13, 2009 10:42 AM

Installing S60 development tools on Windows 7

My first attempt to install Carbide on Win 7 failed. So I thought I’d document the exact steps I followed the second time to make that work Install Pre-requisites Perl I used ActivePerl 5.6.1.638 To ensure UAC didn’t cause any issues I first launched
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Friday, February 13, 2009 9:42 AM

Scott Guthrie’s visit to Microsoft India

I rarely blog about a photo but this is an exception. Scott Guthrie our Corporate Vice President for .NET Developer Platform was here in Hyderabad on a visit to Microsoft India. I had a chance to attend a bunch of product reviews and  meetings with
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Monday, February 09, 2009 10:42 AM

Back to Basics: Optimizing reference counting garbage collection

This post is Part 6 in the series of posts on Garbage Collection (GC). Please see the index here. One of the comments on my previous post on reference counting GC prompted this post. The comment goes as “Ref counting GC seems to have some hard issues.
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Monday, February 02, 2009 10:42 AM

Back To Basics: Copying Garbage Collection

This post is Part 5 in the series of posts on Garbage Collection (GC). Please see the index here. In my previous post I have discussed reference counting and mark-sweep garbage collector in some detail. This post is a quick intro into the copying GC.
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