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Garbage Collection: Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management Rafael D Lins, Richard Jones
Publisher: Wiley

Dynamic memory allocation (Java-style) is done with malloc / calloc / realloc in C. Garbage Collection: Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management The algorithm, Bounds on the latency of Baker's algorithm, Limitations of Baker's algorithm, Variations on Baker, Dynamic regrouping. Where this jumping around causes caches to be I have had to solve have really been memory problems. I love Richter's "CLR via C#" book, and am looking for something similar that covers boxing, generics, class loading, garbage collection, etc. SUMMARY The first part of this two-part article explained how the garbage collection algorithm works, how resources can clean up properly when the garbage collector decides to free a resource's memory, and how to force an object to clean up .. These are not garbage collected - you need to explicitly free every pointer that you allocated. In addition, it can mean the CPU has to jump around to lots of different memory locations to find pieces of dynamically-allocated memory in different locations. Automatic reference counting and disposal of objects being proposed would make programming easier in some situations, and make ARC-enabled objects more compatible with interfaces and dynamic arrays. Explicit ownership can reduce unnecessary memory management overhead by taking back the work from the system (the garbage collector) and allowing programmers to be explicit about who owns what. Garbage Collectionâ€"Part 2: Automatic Memory Management in the Microsoft . Oh, and since Greg mentioned "Inside the VM" (the free online chapters look fluffy to me, as Amazon feedback also states), if you were interested in that level I'd start with the classic book "Garbage Collection: Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management" instead. There is no actual allocation or deallocation going on: the space in the automatic memory (AKA "on the stack") is allocated by some compile-time bookkeeping around the stack pointer. The access of automatic variables is a very fast assisted by hardware, so there is no loss of efficiency there. But there is no need to I am not too familiar with the technical details of garbage collection, but I would like to express a few preliminary thoughts of a general nature about manual versus automatic memory management.