Black Raven Dragoons

[Zancarius]

http://spin.atomicobject.com/2014/09/03 ... lgorithms/

This post has a fantastic treatise on different algorithms used by various platforms and provides some visualization of how they work. It may be especially interesting to you if you're keen on learning one of the several high performance garbage-collected languages out there today, including Golang, Erlang, D, and others (D actually provides both manual memory management and garbage collection).