February 17, 2021

Ruby GC Deep Dive: Tri-Color Mark and Sweep

Happy Wednesday!

I've written the second blog post in the Ruby GC Deep Dive series, and I'd love for you to check it out. It talks about the main algorithm Ruby uses for its garbage collection, a Tri-Color Mark and Sweep algorithm.

In case you missed it, here's the first blog post in this series, which discusses internal constants used for Ruby's GC.

Thanks for continuing to read my work! As always, please reply to this email or dm me on twitter with any feedback or thoughts or questions. I love hearing from you!

Written with love from somewhere in the woods,

Jemma