Card
For our purposes, typically, a structure representing a section of the heap. The entire heap is represented by a number of cards—the card table. The card table is used in generational GC to determine which parts of the old space are dirtied, that is, may have references pointing back to the young space.
See also Write barrier and Generational garbage collection.
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