How does non-deterministic garbage collection affect my code?

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Rajanikant Hawaldar · Answer

For most programmers, having a garbage collector (and using garbage collected objects) means that you never have to worry about deallocating memory, or reference counting objects, even if you use sophisticated data structures. It does require some changes in coding style, however, if you typically deallocate system resources (file handles, locks, and so forth) in the same block of code that releases the memory for an object. With a garbage collected object you should provide a method that releases the system resources deterministically (that is, under your program control) and let the garbage collector release the memory when it compacts the working set.

Sachin Singh · Answer

Garbage Collection in Asp.Net is always non deterministic. When objects are no longer used then it will reclaim those objects by clearing their memory, and keeps the memory available for future allocations in any interval of time. It mainly works in generation like generation 1,2 and 3 if it finds any object that is still referenced by other codes then it puts it into generation 2 and so on. In asp.net you do not need to worry about freeing the memory ,the GC takes care of it, however you can explicitely call it by GC.Collect() method.

Mageshwaran R · Answer

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How does non-deterministic garbage collection affect my code?

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