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Simon Brooke 2019-01-19 11:03:28 +00:00
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There are several possible approaches to optimising garbage collection. I want to try as many as possible of these approaches, although I'm not convinced that any of them will prove in the end better than a conventional generational garbage collector. Still, they're worth trying. There are several possible approaches to optimising garbage collection. I want to try as many as possible of these approaches, although I'm not convinced that any of them will prove in the end better than a conventional generational garbage collector. Still, they're worth trying.
What we need to do is build a system into which different memory management subsystems can be plugged, and to develop a set of benchmarks which aggressively test memory allocation and deallocation, and then see how the different possibilities perform in practice. What we need to do is build a system into which different memory management subsystems can be plugged, and to develop a set of benchmarks which aggressively test memory allocation and deallocation, and then see how the different possibilities perform in practice.
## Further reading
I've written a [number of essays](https://blog.journeyman.cc/search/label/Memory%20management) on memory management, of which I'd particularly point you to [Reference counting, and the garbage collection of equal sized objects](https://blog.journeyman.cc/2013/08/reference-counting-and-garbage.html).