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- From: wilson@cs.utexas.edu (Paul Wilson)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Why garbage collection?
- Date: 2 Feb 1996 17:10:33 -0600
- Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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- In article <822848307snz@wildcard.demon.co.uk>,
- Cyber Surfer <cyber_surfer@wildcard.demon.co.uk> wrote:
- >In article <4eb75f$l2t@cnn.Princeton.EDU> tim@franck "Tim Hollebeek" writes:
- >
- >If you want to know about basic
- >garbage collecting, I'd recommend a computer science book, as it'll
- >probably be more up to date.
-
- I have to disagree here. I know of no textbooks with even a decent
- discussion of garbage collection. The set of people who write textbooks
- seem to be entirely disjoint from the set of people who know about modern
- GC technology. The textbooks are about as bad as the pop programming
- books, and that's pretty bad indeed. (The main exception is Appel's
- very brief paper on GC in the advanced programming language implemenation
- book edited by Peter Lee. Appel's paper is good, but not broad enough
- to cover the area.)
-
- I suggest looking at the papers on our web site (in my .sig, below) which
- include two surveys (long and medium-sized) on GC. (The long version will
- appear in Computing Surveys after some revision.) There are also several
- other papers there by my research group and a bunch by other people
- (from the '91 and '93 OOPSLA GC workshops), and a big bibliography in
- LaTeX .bib format. The web page also has links to Henry Baker's and Hans
- Boehm's web pages.
-
- Enjoy.
-
- --
- | Paul R. Wilson, Comp. Sci. Dept., U of Texas @ Austin (wilson@cs.utexas.edu)
- | Papers on memory allocators, garbage collection, memory hierarchies,
- | persistence and Scheme interpreters and compilers available via ftp from
- | ftp.cs.utexas.edu, in pub/garbage (or http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/wilson/)
-