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- Subject: Re: Why garbage collection?
- Date: Sat, 03 Feb 96 16:35:55 GMT
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- In article <4eu5l9$5m9@jive.cs.utexas.edu>
- wilson@cs.utexas.edu "Paul Wilson" 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.)
-
- Was I refering to modern GC? I'm not sure. I don't know of any books
- on modern GC, but a book 20 years old seems to contain GC techniques
- that many C/C++ programmers are unaware of. Even if that's the best
- book on the subject, it could still enlighten a few programmers.
-
- > 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.
-
- I can't use LaTeX, and I don't currently have a Postscript viewer.
- Perhaps most C/C++ programmers will be more fortunate, but I dunno.
- However, I can view HTML pages, and I bet that almost everyone else
- can, these days. I can certainly recommend Henry Baker's home page.
- I'll have to look at Hans Boehm's pages soon.
-
- Thanks.
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