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allocation

Asking for a new piece of heap memory, which the garbage collector must later clean up.

A heap allocation reserves memory for a new object on the managed heap; allocation rate drives how often the garbage collector runs.

Examples

  • new List<int>(), boxing an int, and text += line inside a loop each allocate a new object on the heap.

See also

heap garbage collector boxing
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