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.
理查德·琼斯（Richard Jones）
坎特伯雷-肯特大学计算机学院教授。1998年联合创立了国际存储管理研讨会，并担任*届会议主席。他发表了多篇关于垃圾回收技术、堆可视化技术、电子出版技术相关的论文，多次担任主要国际会议计划委员会的常务委员，同时还是《Software Practice and Experience》杂志的编辑委员会成员。因在动态存储管理领域的研究和学术成绩，他于2005年被聘任为格拉斯哥大学名誉研究员，2006年被计算机协会评为杰出科学家。
安东尼·霍思金（Antony Hosking）
普渡大学西拉法叶分校计算机学院副教授。他的主要研究方向是编程语言的设计与实现，特别是数据库与持久化编程语言、面向对象数据库系统、动态存储管理、编译器优化以及编程语言和应用的架构支持。
艾略特·莫斯（Eliot Moss）
马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特...
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