The Garbage Collection Handbook, 2nd Edition
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The Garbage Collection Handbook, 2nd Edition
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Re: The Garbage Collection Handbook, 2nd Edition
#2Great that there's a new edition of this coming. This is the definitive reference if you work with garbage collectors, it's also very well written.
Re: The Garbage Collection Handbook, 2nd Edition
#3Cool stuff! The last 10 years have seen lots of great languages pushing the field so I'm excited to see what's in the book =)
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#4On a related note, I found ART's implementation of Concurrent copying and compaction GC to be pretty novel. Here's a nice write up detailing how handling page faults in userspace come in handy to accomplish that: https://www.tdcommons.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4751&c... (pdf) / https://web.archive.org/web/20230216233459/https://www.tdcom...
For context, here's a brief overview of the evolution of the Android Runtime Garbage Collector: https://archive.is/Ue6Pj
Re: The Garbage Collection Handbook, 2nd Edition
#520 years ago in the programming languages lesson at the university we started learning about OOP using Java and Ada as examples. When the professor started describing Java, a fellow student interrupted him to inform the class that "Java has garbage collection" (and boast of his special knowledge).
After that incident his nickname was "the garbage collector"!
Re: The Garbage Collection Handbook, 2nd Edition
#6Anyone know what's new in this edition? Both the publisher's site and the author's site are light on details.
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#8Great that is having an update, it is one of the most relevant source of informations for GC algorithms.
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#9Note that (the first edition of) this book considers reference counting, including variations like deferred reference counting, to be garbage collection (though not tracing garbage collection), and reviews it as well.
Re: The Garbage Collection Handbook, 2nd Edition
#10Bizarre that you can't preorder it yet, you have to wait until June, just to preorder.