[gclist] Question on GC Book by Richard Jones.

Charles Fiterman cef@geode.geodesic.com
Thu, 21 Nov 1996 08:05:25 +0000


At 10:31 PM 11/20/96 -0600, you wrote:
>
>I saw this book announced recently: 
>
>  GARBAGE COLLECTION: Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory
>  Management, by Richard Jones
>    John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, ISBN 0-471-94148-4, 403pg, USD 49.95
>    http://www.ukc.ac.uk/computer_science/Html/Jones/GC/gcbook.html
>
>I want to know if this book covers areas and subjects not mentioned in
>Paul Wilson's survey (ftp://ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/garbage/bigsurv.ps).
>
>If I've digested Wilson's survey, should I bother buying this book?
>
>I'd appreciate any responses from people that have bought/reviewed
>this book.
>
>Please reply by email, I'll summarize.

Its a terrific book and covers lots of areas not in the Wilson Paper.
BTW I'm in the bibliography and can't figure out why although I've
had three GC papers in SIGPLAN notices. I've read it twice and its
worth it.

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A computer language without garbage collection is
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