The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management (2nd Ed)

The second edition of The Garbage Collection Handbook updates the field of automatic memory management, incorporating sixty years of research and development while addressing new challenges posed by modern hardware and software environments. The book covers traditional through state-of-the-art garbage collection algorithms including parallel, concurrent, and real-time approaches, with new chapters on persistence and energy-aware collection. The comprehensive resource, supported by an online database of nearly 3,400 garbage collection publications, serves as an essential guide for programmers working with modern programming languages that universally employ garbage collection.