Garbage Collection

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General pages with links

• Gorik's Garbage Collection Page [1] contains lots of link to references and papers.
• Garbage collector [FAQ] - [algorithms]. Pretty comprehensive.
• http://www.memorymanagement.org/
• OOPS Group Publications - Papers on GC and memory allocation [2].
• Google search [3] on Garbage collection.

Specific topics and papers

• This Dr Dobbs article, Java Garbage Collection for Real-Time Systems [4], contains an informative introduction to garbage collection. It has some ideas on non-disruptive garbage collection. (This paper has an alternative name, No Silver Bullet - Garbage Collection for Java in Embedded Systems ! [5])
• Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector [6].
• Incremental Mature Garbage Collection Using the Train Algorithm [7].
• Cyclic reference counting with Lazy Mark Scan - Rafael D. Lins [9]
• Non-Compacting Memory Allocation and Real-Time Garbage Collection (1996) Mark S. Johnstone [8].