The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management (2nd Edition) – PDF

First published in 1996, Richard Jones’s The Garbage Collection Handbook was groundbreaking in the realm of automated memory management. The highly praised follow-up, The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management, 2nd Edition (PDF), encapsulated the advances in the field up to 2012. As technology evolves, memory management has become increasingly complex, dynamic, and influential. This updated Second edition aims to distill the wealth of knowledge accumulated by researchers and developers of automated memory management over the past 60 years into an accessible framework.

The book delves into the new challenges in garbage collection prompted by recent advances in hardware and software, and considers their implications for creators and implementers of high-performance garbage collectors. In addition to explaining basic and traditional algorithms, the book explores state-of-the-art parallel, incremental, concurrent, and real-time garbage collection approaches, often using pseudocode and illustrations to clarify algorithms and concepts.

Features of this 2nd Edition:

• Extensive discussion of modern, high-performance commercial collectors
• Comprehensive, up-to-date, and authoritative follow-up to the 1996 and 2012 editions
• In-depth coverage of parallel, concurrent, and real-time garbage collection algorithms
• Over 90 additional pages, with new chapters on persistence and energy-aware garbage collection
• Supported by an extensive online database of over 3,400 garbage collection-related publications
• Explanation of complex aspects of garbage collection, including the interface to the runtime system

The widespread use of garbage collection in almost all modern programming languages makes a thorough understanding of the subject essential for any programmer. This authoritative handbook provides expert insights into how different collectors function and the diverse challenges currently confronting garbage collectors. With this knowledge, programmers can confidently select and configure the numerous available garbage collectors.

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