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May 9, 2017
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Garbage collection and variable lifetime tracking

Sergey Tepliakov
Sergey Tepliakov

Here is a seemingly simple question for you: Is it possible that the CLR will call a finalizer for an instance when an instance method is still running? In other words, is it possible in the following case to see ‘Finalizing instance.’ before ‘Finished doing something.’? The answer is: “It depends”. In debug builds this will never happen (as far...

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Jan 5, 2017
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Understanding different GC modes with Concurrency Visualizer

Sergey Tepliakov
Sergey Tepliakov

In this post I’m going to visualize what exactly happens during Garbage Collection (GC) and how different GC modes can significantly affect application performance. I assume that the reader is familiar with garbage collection basics. If this isn’t the case I encourage you to spend 15 minutes to fill this gap, for instance from the following article...

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