The Garbage Collection Handbook¶
Jones, R. (2011). The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management. CRC Press.
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2 citations across 2 artifacts.
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Primes¶
- Garbage Collection
- In computer science it is tracing collectors (mark-and-sweep, copying, generational, concurrent), reference counting, and region-based memory — and beyond memory, the reclamation of file descriptors, database connections, and weak references.
This sourceStandard reference surveying tracing, reference-counting, generational, concurrent, and region-based collection across managed resources including memory, file descriptors, and weak references.
Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
The publisher abstract backs the Handbook as a survey of memory management and concurrent collectors, but it does not name reference counting, region-based memory, weak references, file descriptors, or database connections.
“Along with simple and traditional algorithms, the book covers parallel, incremental, concurrent, and real-time garbage collection.”
- In computer science it is tracing collectors (mark-and-sweep, copying, generational, concurrent), reference counting, and region-based memory — and beyond memory, the reclamation of file descriptors, database connections, and weak references.
- Law of Conservation of Complexity
- A garbage-collected language (Java) shifts that load across the interface onto the runtime, which now performs the lifetime analysis and the freeing, paid in CPU cycles, pause times, and memory overhead rather than in programmer effort.
This sourceEstablishes that garbage collection relocates the lifetime-analysis and freeing work from the programmer to the runtime, paid in CPU cycles, pause times, and memory overhead.
Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
The book's own abstract establishes only that garbage collection is 'automatic memory management' carried out by the runtime; it does not state the CPU-cycle, pause-time and memory-overhead ledger the claim attributes to it.
“The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management brings together a wealth of knowledge gathered by automatic memory management researchers and developers over the past fifty years.”
- A garbage-collected language (Java) shifts that load across the interface onto the runtime, which now performs the lifetime analysis and the freeing, paid in CPU cycles, pause times, and memory overhead rather than in programmer effort.
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