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Garbage Collection: Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.42
EAN: 9780471941484
ISBN: 0471941484
Label: Wiley
Manufacturer: Wiley
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 404
Publication Date: September 17, 1996
Publisher: Wiley
Studio: Wiley
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Editorial Review:
Modern software places increasing reliance on dynamic memory allocation, but its direct management is not only notoriously error-prone. Garbage collection eliminates many of these bugs. This reference presents each of the most important algorithms in detail, often with illustrations of its characteristic features and animations of its use.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Category killer
This book is superb. It is thorough enough that there is little need for a practitioner to read the primary literature, even when contemplating sophisticated garbage collector designs. I remember being intimidated by garbage collection prior to reading this book, but now I am instead enthralled by garbage collection. Given the trend toward automatic memory management in programming languages, I think this book is an increasingly important part of the practicing programmer's library.
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Rating: - An absolute must
I'd bought this book for personal reading. Even though I'm not directly into GC algos, I found this book amazingly lucid to read and follow. It has thorough coverage of all the GC algos I've heard of till date.
It goes about explaining the algos with a very broad level view, then goes a little deep, then deeper, so its very easy to follow, and the reader can decide to what extent (s)he wants to understand the algo.
A must have for anybody directly working on GC, or like me, ... Read More
Rating: - Great book
This is really a great book. It's really a must have for people who want to write their own modern virtual machine (like I).
This is simply the only book about Garbage Collection you can get. It's very complete: all GC Algorithmes are covered by this book in depth! All topics are properly introduced it has a nice layout, and offer snippets of pseudocode. It is not really a dry text.
If you want to read scientific papers about Garbage Collectors (like of ACM), it's recommended ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent book
Garbage collection is a very interesting and complicated topic. To understand different garbage collection algorithms, one has to go through various research papers published over last 30 years or read the simplified descriptions presented in Java site and Bill Venners artima.com. This book does an excellent job in putting together all these algorithms in a logical order that gives us a chance to understand the different challenges sceintists and programming language authors faced and how the algorithms ... Read More
Rating: - pretty good book
I wanted to know about the generational algorithm that Java is now using. The book was pretty clear about how things work. I haven't read the whole book but what I've seen is very encouraging. The first few chapters are a broad overview and then you can dive into the particular algorithm you are interested in.
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