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Figure 8-4.

A clean and compacted heap

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Note

Strictly speaking, the garbage collector makes use of two distinct heaps, one of which is specifically used

to store very large objects. This heap is less frequently consulted during the collection cycle, given possible per-

formance penalties involved with relocating large objects. Regardless of this fact, it is safe to consider the

“managed heap” as a single region of memory.