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Nov 8, 2004
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Tools that help diagnose managed memory related issues

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I was writing an internal wiki page on performance and thought this info is useful to many external readers as well so here it goes. vadump is a good start. It’s an mstools tool – meaning you can find it on your NT CD under bin\mstools. You can take a snapshot of the process and see if the GC heap is an issue or not. It was created a long time ago ...

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Nov 4, 2004
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Clearing up some confusion over finalization and other areas in GC

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In the WinDev conference that I just went to, there seems to be some confusion over finalization (such as why it even exists and etc) and other areas. I hope the following will clear up that confusion. If not, let me know.   Finalization   1)      Why we have finalization   Finalization is necessary because y...

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