Garbage Collection

Question

I am not able to understand few things on the Garbage collection.

Firstly, how is data allocated space ? i.e. on stack or heap( As per my knowledge, all static or globa

Answer 1

Read this article. It is a very good survey on uniprocessor garbage collection techniques. It will give you the basic understanding and terminology on GC. Then, follow up with the Jones and Lins book "Garbage Collection: Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management". Contrary to the survey article I point to above, the book is not available for free on the Web; you have to buy it; but it is worth it.