Tag: #garbage-collection

Golang’s realtime garbage collector at Not On The High Street Conference

Discussed Go’s real-time garbage collector at an internal conference, after presenting the same talk at The Realtime Guild. 2017-03-10

Golang’s realtime garbage collector, at The Realtime Guild

A talk given with Will Sewell. Overview of Go’s concurrent garbage collector. 2017-02-15

A summary of ‘On-the-Fly Garbage Collection: An Exercise in Cooperation’

A concurrent garbage collection algorithm that keeps synchronization constraints between the mutator and collector processes as weak as possible. It uses node markings (white, grey, black) to ensure reachable objects are not incorrectly collected. 2016-11-16

How does tricolor garbage collection work?

Golang’s garbage collector uses a “tricolor” algorithm, dividing heap objects into black, white, and grey sets. The algorithm can run concurrently with the program, and the “tricolor” invariant ensures no pointers go directly from the black set to the white set, allowing the white set to be cleared. 2016-11-11

Low latency, large working set, and GHC’s garbage collector: pick two of three

Large working sets and low latency are incompatible with GHC’s stop-the-world garbage collector, which optimizes for throughput instead of latency. The collector’s pause times scale linearly with working set size. 2016-05-12

Orphaned file detection

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