Resource Management in perspective: the Stack

An archetypical analogy of a stack data structure with a stack of plates.

Up to now, we have been focus­ing on where memory man­age­ment actu­ally occurs, the heap. But this is not the only memory seg­ment rel­ev­ant to a pro­gram. Indeed, in all garbage col­lec­ted tech­niques, there’re oth­er play­ers hav­ing a rel­ev­ant role in the game: the mutat­or and the root set. In the ref­er­ence coun­ted garbage collection, […]