[gclist] Garbage Collection

[Emery Berger]

I think your best bet is to pick up Jones and Lins' book on garbage
collection and start reading.

"Garbage Collection : Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory
Management", by Richard Jones and Rafael D. Lins

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471941484/qid=1014216352/sr=8-1/
ref=sr_8_3_1/104-6643677-7146302

Another option is to pick up Paul Wilson's extensive GC survey, which
has the extra benefit of being free:

http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/wilson92uniprocessor.html

-- Emery

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Emery Berger
Dept. of Computer Science
The University of Texas at Austin
www.cs.utexas.edu/users/emery


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gclist@lists.iecc.com [mailto:owner-gclist@lists.iecc.com]
On
> Behalf Of Sanjiv Kumar Gupta
> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 9:59 PM
> To: gclist@lists.iecc.com
> Subject: Re: [gclist] Garbage Collection
> 
> I am trying to understand the implementation of the Kaffe garbage
> collector.
> The first step of the Mark phase there is to wall all root Objects and
> mark
> them as grey. Could anybody tell me what do we mean by root Objects or
> root
> set etc. and why do we start marking from them.
> 
> Regards
> Sanjiv
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: will@ccs.neu.edu [mailto:will@ccs.neu.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 12:36 AM
> To: gclist-owner@lists.iecc.com; gclist@lists.iecc.com
> Subject: Re: [gclist] Garbage Collection
> 
> 
> > I wanted
> > to know if anybody on this list had worked on the gc of hotspot
1.3.1
> virtual
> > machine or if anybody has the source of information on the source
code
> of
> the
> > current implementation of hotspot jvm.
> 
> The source code for the garbage collector in the Hotspot JVM
> is the intellectual property of Sun Microsystems.  It is not
> available to the general public.
> 
> Will