Kevin Gosse • 2/18/2025

Writing a .NET Garbage Collector in C# - Part 4

This technical article, part 4 of a series, details the process of walking the .NET managed heap, a prerequisite for implementing the mark phase in a custom tracing garbage collector written in C#. It covers distinguishing between fixed-size and variable-size objects, computing object sizes, and the logic for traversing the heap's linked-list-like structure.

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