The Garbage Collection Handbook, Second Edition: A Comprehensive Guide to Automatic Memory Management
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This is a book description for the second edition of "The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management." It updates the 2012 first edition and builds on Richard Jones's seminal 1996 book "Garbage Collection." The handbook covers automatic memory management techniques, comparing major approaches and state-of-the-art methods within a unified framework, reflecting sixty years of research and development in the field.
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· 3 pulledRichard Jones's Garbage Collection (Wiley, 1996) was a milestone book in the area of automatic memory management.
Technology developments have made memory management more challenging, interesting and important than ever.
The authors compare the most important approaches and state-of-the-art techniques in a single, accessible framework.
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