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1978 called, wants its garbage collectors back1978 called, wants its garbage collectors backPosted Sep 4, 2008 14:06 UTC (Thu) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474)In reply to: 1978 called, wants its garbage collectors back by i3839 Parent article: The Kernel Hacker's Bookshelf: UNIX Internals
I don't know much about GC... So it seems. Have a look at Wikipedia then for the serious end of garbage collection take a look at Richard Jones [no relation]'s garbage collection resources page and in particular his book. Rich.
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1978 called, wants its garbage collectors back Posted Sep 5, 2008 13:12 UTC (Fri) by i3839 (guest, #31386) [Link]
Umm, Wikipedia just mentions two basic types of GC, a reachability based one and a reference counting based one, and I mentioned both methods without knowing a thing about GC. Same for the "What the heck is: Garbage Collection" article mentioned in the comment above, and the book doesn't seem to mention anything fundamentally different either, just goes into details (same ideas, different algorithms, though interesting ones. Especially the copying one is smart, as it solves the fragmentation problem). Isn't there another paradigm of doing GC out there? Or is the little I know really all that's to know about GC on a high level?
I was totally wrong on the overhead/cost though. ;-)
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