The Garbage Collection Handbook
eBook - PDF

The Garbage Collection Handbook

The Art of Automatic Memory Management

  1. 573 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Garbage Collection Handbook

The Art of Automatic Memory Management

About this book

Published in 1996, Richard Jones's Garbage Collection was a milestone in the area of automatic memory management. Its widely acclaimed successor, The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management, captured the state of the field in 2012. Modern technology developments have made memory management more challenging, interesting and important than ever. This second edition updates the handbook, bringing together a wealth of knowledge gathered by automatic memory management researchers and developers over the past sixty 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 state-of-the-art parallel, incremental, concurrent and real-time garbage collection. Algorithms and concepts are often described with pseudocode and illustrations.

Features of this edition

  • Provides a complete, up-to-date, and authoritative sequel to the 1996 and 2012 books
  • Offers thorough coverage of parallel, concurrent, and real-time garbage collection algorithms
  • Discusses in detail modern, high-performance commercial collectors
  • Explains some of the trickier aspects of garbage collection, including the interface to the run-time system
  • Over 90 more pages including new chapters on persistence and energy-aware garbage collection
  • Backed by a comprehensive online database of over 3, 400 garbage collection-related publications

The adoption of garbage collection by almost all 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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Algorithms
  8. List of Figures
  9. List of Tables
  10. Preface
  11. Acknowledgements
  12. Authors
  13. 1. Introduction
  14. 2. Mark-sweep garbage collection
  15. 3. Mark-compact garbage collection
  16. 4. Copying garbage collection
  17. 5. Reference counting
  18. 6. Comparing garbage collectors
  19. 7. Allocation
  20. 8. Partitioning the heap
  21. 9. Generational garbage collection
  22. 10. Other partitioned schemes
  23. 11. Run-time interface
  24. 12. Language-specific concerns
  25. 13. Concurrency preliminaries
  26. 14. Parallel garbage collection
  27. 15. Concurrent garbage collection
  28. 16. Concurrent mark-sweep
  29. 17. Concurrent copying and compaction
  30. 18. Concurrent reference counting
  31. 19. Real-time garbage collection
  32. 20. Energy-aware garbage collection
  33. 21. Persistence and garbage collection
  34. Glossary
  35. Bibliography
  36. Index