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Garbage collection, a memorandum on memory in C#

by bill-s, 2018-07-03T04:28:12.134Z

Not coming from a background in computer science, the inner workings of a computer have always been somewhat of a mystery to me. This is something I’ve always meant to remedy but never quite gotten around to. When I transitioned from C++ to C# my main thought surrounding memory management was “well thank god I don’t have to think about that anymore”. However, in the last few weeks I have been really drilling down into the inner workings of the language (a big thank you to Ian Griffiths for his book Programming C# 5.0). In doing this I have realised that memory management is not only something that does require some consideration, but also something that I find quite interesting.

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