Applies to:
Microsoft® .NET Framework
Contents
Introduction
Simplified Model
Collecting the Garbage
Performance
Finalization
Conclusion
Introduction
In order to understand how to make good use of the garbage collector and what performance problems you might run into when running in a garbage-collected environment, it's important to understand the basics of how garbage collectors work and how those inner workings affect running programs.
This article is broken down into two parts: First I will discuss the nature of the common language runtime (CLR)'s garbage collector in general terms using a simplified model, and then I will discuss some performance implications of that structure.
Simplified Model
For explanatory purposes, consider the following simplified model of the managed heap. Note that this is not what is actually implemented.
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