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In garbage collection mechanism, what is vendor/platform dependent? What is not?

April 26, 2017collection dependent garbage mechanism Platform vendor

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In garbage collection mechanism, what is vendor/platform dependent? What is not?

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How GC implemented is vender and platform dependent. Which means: It is vender and platform dependent that when and in what order the eligible for GC objects will be GCed. However, which objects are eligible for GC is independent of implementations. Different vendor may use different algorithms. What algorithm used to find the objects, which are eligible for GC does not matter. What really matters is that they use the same principle. The object is no longer referenced or referenced only by objects, which are eligible for GC. Unless they have a bug…