Garbage Collection – Introduction

Welcome to the most important part of this book. The previous chapters have described quite broadly the subject of memory management with some theoretical and hardware introductions. You also got to learn a lot of details about the organization of memory in the .NET environment – how it is divided into segments and generations and how all this infrastructure works with the operating system. Much of this knowledge is valuable in itself, allowing you, for example, to diagnose excessive memory allocations or how to use different methods to avoid them.