The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management
- Length: 511 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC
- Publication Date: 2011-08-17
- ISBN-10: 1420082795
- ISBN-13: 9781420082791
- Sales Rank: #452735 (See Top 100 Books)
Published in 1996, Richard Jones’s Garbage Collection was a milestone in the area of automatic memory management. The field has grown considerably since then, sparking a need for an updated look at the latest state-of-the-art developments. The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management brings together a wealth of knowledge gathered by automatic memory management researchers and developers over the past fifty years. The authors compare the most important approaches and state-of-the-art techniques in a single, accessible framework.
The book addresses new challenges to garbage collection made by recent advances in hardware and software. It explores the consequences of these changes for designers and implementers of high performance garbage collectors. Along with simple and traditional algorithms, the book covers parallel, incremental, concurrent, and real-time garbage collection. Algorithms and concepts are often described with pseudocode and illustrations.
The nearly universal adoption of garbage collection by modern programming languages makes a thorough understanding of this topic essential for any programmer. This authoritative handbook gives expert insight on how different collectors work as well as the various issues currently facing garbage collectors. Armed with this knowledge, programmers can confidently select and configure the many choices of garbage collectors.
Web Resource
The book’s online bibliographic database at www.gchandbook.org includes over 2,500 garbage collection-related publications. Continually updated, it contains abstracts for some entries and URLs or DOIs for most of the electronically available ones. The database can be searched online or downloaded as BibTeX, PostScript, or PDF.
E-book
This edition enhances the print version with copious clickable links to algorithms, figures, original papers and definitions of technical terms. In addition, each index entry links back to where it was mentioned in the text, and each entry in the bibliography includes links back to where it was cited.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Mark-sweep garbage collection
Chapter 3 Mark-compact garbage collection
Chapter 4 Copying garbage collection
Chapter 5 Reference counting
Chapter 6 Comparing garbage collectors
Chapter 7 Allocation
Chapter 8 Partitioning the heap
Chapter 9 Generational garbage collection
Chapter 10 Other partitioned schemes
Chapter 11 Run-time interface
Chapter 12 Language-specific concerns
Chapter 13 Concurrency preliminaries
Chapter 14 Parallel garbage collection
Chapter 15 Concurrent garbage collection
Chapter 16 Concurrent mark-sweep
Chapter 17 Concurrent copying & compaction
Chapter 18 Concurrent reference counting
Chapter 19 Real-time garbage collection
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