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The Garbage Collection Handbook, 2nd Edition
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Re: The Garbage Collection Handbook, 2nd Edition
#12Bizarre that you can't preorder it yet, you have to wait until June, just to preorder.
As a guess, they might want the accounting for preorders to fall into Q3? Is that a thing people do?
Re: The Garbage Collection Handbook, 2nd Edition
#13Who would usually need this book?
Re: The Garbage Collection Handbook, 2nd Edition
#14Rust has left the building
Re: The Garbage Collection Handbook, 2nd Edition
#15Who would usually need this book?
The first edition is a definitive reference for anyone writing a garbage collector (and by extension, exploring writing a programming language). Also people who are interested in how GCs work.
Probably less so for people trying to optimize a program to work with an existing GC (eg. tweaking the JVM), but I suppose knowing the basic principles can help.
Re: The Garbage Collection Handbook, 2nd Edition
#16Rust has left the building
Rust also uses reference counting, probably the worst sort of garbage collection.
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#17Re: The Garbage Collection Handbook, 2nd Edition
#18Bizarre that you can't preorder it yet, you have to wait until June, just to preorder.
I managed to pre-order it on Amazon UK.