在自动内存管理领域，Richard Jones于1996年出版的《Garbage Collection：Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management》可谓是一部里程碑式的作品。接近20年过去了，垃圾回收技术得到了非常大的发展，因此有必要将该领域当前最先进的技术呈现给读者。本书汇集了自动内存管理研究者和开发者们在过去50年间的丰富经验，在本书中，作者在一个统一的易于接受的框架内比较了当下最重要的回收策略以及最先进的回收技术。
本书从近年来硬件与软件的发展给垃圾回收所带来的新挑战出发，探讨了这些挑战给高性能垃圾回收器的设计者与实现者所带来的影响。在简单的传统回收算法之外，本书还涵盖了并行垃圾回收、增量式垃圾回收、并发垃圾回收以及实时垃圾回收。书中配备了丰富的伪代码与插图，以描述各种算法与概念。
本书特色
为1996年《Garbage Collection：Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management》一书提供了完整的、最新的、权威的续作。
全面讲解并行垃圾回收算法、并发垃圾回收算法以及实时垃圾回收算法。
深入剖析某些垃圾回收领域的棘手问题，包括与运行时系统的接口。
提供在线数据库支持，包含超过2500条垃圾回收相关文献。

Published in 1996, Richard Jones's Garbage Collection was a milestone in the area of automatic memory management. The field has grown considerably since then, sparking a need for an updated look at the latest state-of-the-art developments. 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. The authors compare the most important approaches and state-of-the-art techniques in a single, accessible framework. The book addresses new challenges to garbage collection made by recent advances in hardware and software. It explores the consequences of these changes for designers and implementers of high performance garbage collectors. Along with simple and traditional algorithms, the book covers parallel, incremental, concurrent, and real-time garbage collection. Algorithms and concepts are often described with pseudocode and illustrations. The nearly universal adoption of garbage collection by modern programming languages makes a thorough understanding of this topic essential for any programmer. This authoritative handbook gives expert insight on how different collectors work as well as the various issues currently facing garbage collectors. Armed with this knowledge, programmers can confidently select and configure the many choices of garbage collectors. Web Resource The book's online bibliographic database at www.gchandbook.org includes over 2,500 garbage collection-related publications. Continually updated, it contains abstracts for some entries and URLs or DOIs for most of the electronically available ones. The database can be searched online or downloaded as BibTeX, PostScript, or PDF.