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April 2007 - Posts

Finalizers and weak references

What do finalizers and weak references have in common? Well more than you might think actually. Finalizers Finalizers are clean-up code that will be run at the end of an objects life-cycle. You should only release native resources in the finalizer. When Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 26, 2007 4:25 PM by JohanS | 2 Comments

Memory management in the .NET Framework

This is a subject that has been covered before and I have no intention of writing the ultimate post on the subject. Still I think this is something that every good developer should know. Why do I need to know this? My colleagues and I are quite often Read More...
Posted Friday, April 20, 2007 3:07 PM by JohanS | 12 Comments

Why adding more memory won't resolve OutOfMemoryExceptions

Quite often I am met with the incorrect assumption that out of memory exceptions can be resolved by adding more memory. I can understand why you'd think that, but actually it won't matter at all. Additional RAM may increase performance, but an additional Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 19, 2007 11:43 AM by JohanS | 7 Comments
 
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