Matt Warren • 8/8/2016

GC Pauses and Safe Points

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This technical article delves into how the .NET Garbage Collector (GC) manages pauses by bringing application threads to a safe point. It explains the GC suspension flow, the role of the Execution Engine, and techniques like polling (FC_GC_POLL) to minimize Time To Safe Point (TTSP), using code snippets from the runtime for illustration.

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