I already made a post about how the Garbage Collector works in .NET and also introduced slightly the topic of Generations. This article will look a bit more in detail why we have those mechanism in the first place including the Large Object Heap.
Just imagine a car pool: There is a dealer which bought the car and lent's it to you. After a while you will return this car where you got it from. Much like that works an ObjectPool in C#. You can rent an expensive object from the pool and when you are done with it, you just return it. Sounds beautiful, doesn't it?
Let's explore the advantages and disadvantages of a ObjectPools and how they work.
This article will talk about the garbage collector in .NET. Why do we have and need him? And why it is important to understand the behavior to know what impact on our application he has.
Finalizers (historically referred to as destructors) are in C# since its dawn of time and are used to cleanup resources. But they should not used in every use-case and can harm your applications performance.