
Written by Michał Piotrowski2025-04-02
Garbage collection theory – Copying algorithm
GC Theory Article
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe last ‘main’ of the GC algorithms that I’ve mentioned in the first post, was copying algorithm. The time has come then to dedicate a separate article to it. Basics of copying Algorithms already described suffer either from their execution time length, or resulting memory fragmentation. Copying GC algorithms are trying to address these issues,