This post begins with a brief background about concurrent GC (garbage collection). Then it describes the Riptide algorithm in detail, including the mature WebKit GC foundation, on which it is built. The field of incremental and concurrent GC goes back a long time and WebKit is not the first system to use it, so this post has a section about how Riptide fits into the related work. This post concludes with performance data.

Solid article.