Dura Soft
.NET-30
GC Strategy Generation Count
•May be expensive to De-fragment and compact
•GC is usually performed on a small area of managed heap
–rather than on the entire managed heap
•Each object has a generation count or age
–number of times it has survived GC sweep
•This value
–starts with 0
–does not exceed 2
•GC regroups objects
–by generation count
o1 1
o2 1
o3 0
o1 2
o2 2
o3 1
sweep area
o4 0