- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of Algorithms
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Authors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Mark-sweep garbage collection
- 3 Mark-compact garbage collection
- 4 Copying garbage collection
- 5 Reference counting
- 6 Comparing garbage collectors
- 7 Allocation
- 8 Partitioning the heap
- 9 Generational garbage collection
- 9.1 Example
- 9.2 Measuring time
- 9.3 Generational hypotheses
- 9.4 Generations and heap layout
- 9.5 Multiple generations
- 9.6 Age recording
- 9.7 Adapting to program behaviour
- 9.8 Inter-generational pointers
- 9.9 Space management
- 9.10 Older-first garbage collection
- 9.11 Beltway
- 9.12 Analytic support for generational collection
- 9.13 Issues to consider
- 9.14 Abstract generational garbage collection
- 10 Other partitioned schemes
- 11 Run-time interface
- 11.1 Interface to allocation
- 11.2 Finding pointers
- 11.3 Object tables
- 11.4 References from external code
- 11.5 Stack barriers
- 11.6 GC-safe points and mutator suspension
- 11.7 Garbage collecting code
- 11.8 Read and write barriers
- 11.9 Managing address space
- 11.10 Applications of virtual memory page protection
- 11.11 Choosing heap size
- 11.12 Issues to consider
- 12 Language-specific concerns
- 12.1 Finalisation
- When do finalisers run?
- Which thread runs a finaliser?
- Can finalisers run concurrently with each other?
- Can finalisers access the object that became unreachable?
- When are finalised objects reclaimed?
- What happens if there is an error in a finaliser?
- Is there any guaranteed order to finalisation?
- The finalisation race problem
- Finalisers and locks
- Finalisation in particular languages
- For further study
- 12.2 Weak references
- 12.3 Issues to consider
- 12.1 Finalisation
- 13 Concurrency preliminaries
- 14 Parallel garbage collection
- 15 Concurrent garbage collection
- 16 Concurrent mark-sweep
- 17 Concurrent copying & compaction
- 18 Concurrent reference counting
- 19 Real-time garbage collection
- 19.1 Real-time systems
- 19.2 Scheduling real-time collection
- 19.3 Work-based real-time collection
- 19.4 Slack-based real-time collection
- 19.5 Time-based real-time collection: Metronome
- 19.6 Combining scheduling approaches: Tax-and-Spend
- 19.7 Controlling fragmentation
- Incremental compaction in Metronome
- Incremental replication on uniprocessors
- Stopless: lock-free garbage collection
- Staccato: best-effort compaction with mutator wait-freedom
- Chicken: best-effort compaction with mutator wait-freedom for x86
- Clover: guaranteed compaction with probabilistic mutator lock-freedom
- Stopless versus Chicken versus Clover
- Fragmented allocation
- 19.8 Issues to consider
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
THE GARBAGE COLLECTION HANDBOOK
The Art of Automatic Memory Management
Richard Jones
Antony Hosking
Eliot Moss
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