Articles tagged "garbage-collection"

Memory management in CodeSwitch
Published on 2015-09-12
CodeSwitch has its own garbage collected heap, which is used not only for objects allocated by interpreted code, but also for most internal data structures. In this article, I'll describe how the heap is built, how the garbage collector works, and how it tracks pointers to the heap from C++ code.
Tagged: codeswitch garbage-collection gypsum virtual-machines

A tour of V8: Garbage Collection
Published on 2013-09-23, edited on 2014-01-26
In this article, I reveal the secrets of V8's garbage collector! Tagged pointers, generational collection, incremental marking, and parallel sweeping are demystified!
Tagged: garbage-collection javascript v8 virtual-machines