“Show Me the Garbage!”, Understanding Garbage Collection
summary
Covers garbage collection designs across multiple software runtimes, comparing different GC approaches and the runtime conditions that make them work well. Explains how misuse or unsuitable conditions cause collectors to degrade performance and produce long pauses, and what runtime factors enable good GC behavior.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 4:46Participants
- 6:13Automatic Reference Counting (ARC)
- 6:58Automatic Reference Counting - Cycles
- 7:31Reference Counting Concurrency
- 12:58STW Collectors - Serial (single threaded) - Monolith
- 13:38STW Collectors - Incremental
- 15:09Concurrent Collectors -Parallel
- 18:23Root Scanning & Safe Points
- 21:46Thread Local Bump allocation
- 22:53Generational collectors
- 27:26Additional Reading
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