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neonsunset on May 12, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Garbage Collectors Are Scary

For anyone interested in GC internals for a language that mixes low-level and high-level primitives*, I can strongly recommend watching Konrad Kokosa lectures on .NET's GC internals.

They are very accessible and only assume you have light C++ background.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i1Nv7wGsjk&list=PLpUkQYy-K8... (can be listened at 1.5 speed)

*i.e. all the "unboxed" primitives discussed in the original post.

szszrk on May 12, 2024 [–]

He also wrote a pretty huge book with A LOT of .net memory goodness that has nice reviews.

Great lad to work with as well, open minded to various angles and whole stack from browser experience to deployment.

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