The Garbage Collection Handbook ("International Perspectives on Science, Culture and Society")

It is a remarkable collection of the evolution of automatic storage management. For the vast majority of programmers, much of this material will remain behind the curtain.But when systems reach a sufficient complexity, or the constraints on performance become sufficiently demanding,at least an overview of the issues and choices facing system designers becomes critical. When facing particular challenges, an issue-driven overview will make it easier to identify which particular ideas are worth a more detailed reading.

"The Garbage Collection Handbook is the most up to date, detailed, and exhaustive collation and description of the current state of the art of the Garbage Collection and Automatic Memory Management available today. It is an imperative reference book for anyone working in the field, and I would consider it the textbook of reference covering 'GC 101' thru 'GC 530' course levels, if such courses were given at universities worldwide. As CTO of Azul Systems and co-creator of multiple modern concurrent collectors, Richard Jones' previous 'Garbage Collection' (1996) book was indispensable to my work over the years. The Garbage Collection Handbook has immediately taken its place. Each of our GC engineers has a copy on their desk.Gil Tene, Chief Technical Officer and co-founder of Azul Systems

Thorough treatment of this important subject. As far as I know, this is the only single-place information. All the rest is thousands of published papers (BTW, the book contains lots of references and a very extensive bibliography) in varying notation and terminology.

A great introduction to the field. I've scored huge points in three interviews and gotten hired once because I read this book :).

This is an excellent book and the on-line resources are quite good. The content covered is well-described.

This probably is the best book on GC that is both systematical and practical. Really helpful for understanding all GC algorithms.

The book covers about 50 years of garbage collection techniques and has tons of references for further reading. It outlines in pseudo-code with lots of diagrams various algorithms and deals with concepts like atomic memory updates and thread safety. It makes one aware of what goes on behind the scenes in managed environments. It’s an excellent book for any programmer to have on the bookshelf.

Must have.

L'ideale per chi ha un interesse specifico sull'argomento.Un libro per specialisti non per principianti, ovviamente, ma molto ben fatto.

最初は古典的なGCの方法についてひと通り述べてある。で、そこから「Concurrent」「Parallel」GC の要件、「Real Time」 GCの要件へと話は進んでいく。この辺りについてひと通り網羅して書いてある本は、英語、日本語を含めて本書が初めてだと思う。最近のGCについて知りたいなら、おさえておくべき一冊。