The garbage collection handbook : the art of automatic memory management / Richard Jones, Antony Hosking, Eliot Moss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Richard, 1954- author.

Contributor:

Hosking, Antony.

Moss, Eliot.

Series:

Chapman & Hall/CRC applied algorithms and data structures series.

Chapman & Hall/CRC Applied Algorithms and Data Structures series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Memory management (Computer science).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (599 pages) : illustrations, tables.

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC Press, 2012.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Mark-sweep garbage collection

3. Mark-compact garbage collection

4. Copying garbage collection

5. Reference counting

6. Comparing garbage collectors

7. Allocation

8. Partitioning the heap

9. Generational garbage collection

10. Other partitioned schemes

11. Run-time interface

12. Language-specific concerns

13. Concurrency preliminaries

14. Parallel garbage collection

15. Concurrent garbage collection

16. Concurrent mark-sweep

17. Concurrent copying & compaction

18. Concurrent reference counting

19. Real-time garbage collection.

Notes:

A Chapman & Hall book.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781315388014

1315388014

9781315388021

1315388022

9781315388007

1315388006

OCLC:

1000441359