EulerFoldWriting a Garbage Collector
“Implementing mark-sweep and generational GC teaches memory management better than any lecture. This comprehensive curriculum is designed to give you hands-on experience with Writing a Garbage Collector.”
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What you'll learn
Memory Allocation & The Object Header
Build a basic bump allocator and define the object memory layout for a toy language runtime.
Implementing Mark and Sweep
Write the core algorithms to trace live objects and reclaim unreachable memory.
Generational & Copying Garbage Collection
Implement a generational collector that exploits the weak generational hypothesis for faster collection.
Concurrent Collection & GC in Production
Understand how production GCs (Go, JVM, V8) minimize pause times and how to tune them.
Generational Garbage Collection
Implement the Weak Generational Hypothesis by separating objects by age to speed up GC pauses.
Concurrent and Parallel GC
Reduce Stop-The-World (STW) pauses by executing garbage collection concurrently with the application thread.
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Practice
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