Implementing Your Own Garbage Collector in Java: Memory Allocation, Reference Tracking, and GC Algorithms

This guide walks through designing a fixed-size memory pool, implementing reference counting with cycle detection, coding Mark & Sweep, Mark & Compact, and Copying GC algorithms, and wiring root object identification and sweeping into a working CustomGarbageCollector class.

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