Yesterday I found this really nice Channel 9 interview with Maoni Stephens (Dev Owner of the CLR GC) and Andrew Pardoe (Program manager for the CLR GC) where they talked about the new Background GC in CLR 4.0.
She also talks about it here and there is not much value in me repeating what she already says there but basically the main points of the video and the post are:
Concurrent GC is being replaced by Background GC in CLR 4.0
Concurrent GC is the mode of the GC that you use in desktop applications for example. The goal of the concurrent GC is to minimize pause time, and it does so by allowing you to still allocate while a GC is in progress (hence the concurrent part).
Concurrent GC is only available in workstation m ...
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