While the article is interesting, it skips important things, which have high influence on practical GC speed - write barriers and finalizers. The following anci

While the article is interesting, it skips important things, which have high influence on practical GC speed - write barriers and finalizers. The following ancient article from Microsoft has better coverage of GC internals http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms973837.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms973837.aspx (somewhat biased to .NET :) ).