Should you be scared of Unix signals? (2016)
If anyone is curious about how signals are used for garbage collection (specifically SIGSEGV) check out this article:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@MartinCracauer&#x2F;generational-garbage-collection-write-barriers-write-protection-and-userfaultfd-2-8b0e796b8f7f" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@MartinCracauer&#x2F;generational-garbage-coll...</a><p>It&#x27;s handy for knowing which areas of the heap have been untouched (and thus don&#x27;t need to be scavenged in a generational gc).