For those interested in more details about .NET garbage collector here is some reading. Garbage Collection Overview https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0

For those interested in more details about .NET garbage collector here is some reading. Garbage Collection Overview https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0xy59wtx(v=vs.110).aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0xy59wtx(v=vs.110).... Fundamentals of garbage collection https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee787088(v=vs.110).aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee787088(v=vs.110).... Visualising the .NET Garbage Collector http://mattwarren.org/2016/06/20/Visualising-the-dotNET-Garbage-Collector/ http://mattwarren.org/2016/06/20/Visualising-the-dotNET-Garb... Clr Book of the runtime : Garbage Collection https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/master/Documentation/botr/garbage-collection.md https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/master/Documentation/... Maoni Stephen's Blog https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/maoni https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/maoni https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/maoni/2004/06/15/using-gc-efficiently-part-1/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/maoni/2004/06/15/using-gc-e... https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/maoni/2004/09/25/using-gc-efficiently-part-2/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/maoni/2004/09/25/using-gc-e... https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/maoni/2004/12/19/using-gc-efficiently-part-3/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/maoni/2004/12/19/using-gc-e... https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/maoni/2005/05/06/using-gc-efficiently-part-4/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/maoni/2005/05/06/using-gc-e... There is also a refactoring effort to standardize the GC<->EE interface https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/projects/3 https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/projects/3 I would link to the source code of the GC itself, but it's a single 35KSLOC file.