Componentizing D's garbage collector

Bienlein jeti789 at web.de
Fri Jan 10 02:30:08 PST 2014


On Friday, 10 January 2014 at 10:05:45 UTC, Bienlein wrote:
> On Friday, 10 January 2014 at 09:57:18 UTC, Joseph Rushton 
> Wakeling wrote:
>
>> Can you recommend some good background reading for those of us 
>> who would love to have some input (or at least insight) to 
>> this, but don't yet have the theoretical understanding?
>
> You mean about how GCs work? I have the book "Garbage 
> Collection: Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management" 
> by Richard Jones, Rafael D Lins. I can recommend it. It is not 
> too technical that it gets too hard. But it doesn't tell the 
> reader how to write a GC. It's more an overview of various 
> approaches in GC construction.

Seems like we were all in parallel with our book recommendations; 
only some minutes apart ...


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