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Questions - concurrent-mark-sweep

Why does a mark & sweep collector have to stop the world and not run in parallel?

I am reading "The Garbage Collection Handbook: 2nd Edition". In the "Mark-Sweep garbage collection" page, it is mentioned that all mutator threads stop while the collector thread r...
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In the marking phase, the collector only touches bytes (mark flags) that it owns and the mutator shouldn't even use. It only mutates bytes that it owns. But it examines bytes owned by the mutator. W...
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