Erlang is mostly an immutable functional language without pointers, so for most scenarios not involving large binaries, its GC is completely trivial. For large

Erlang is mostly an immutable functional language without pointers, so for most scenarios not involving large binaries, its GC is completely trivial. For large binaries, a relatively primitive reference counting system is used. If I were to study GC from scratch, I'd start with http://www.hboehm.info/gc/ http://www.hboehm.info/gc/.