The Garbage Collection Handbook av Richard (University of Kent Canterbury Kent United Kingdom) Jones, Antony Hosking, Eliot (University of Massachuset

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<P>Published in 1996, Richard Jones¿s <EM>Garbage Collection</EM> 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. <STRONG>The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management</STRONG> 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. </P><br/><br/><P></P><br/><br/><P>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 concept