The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management 2nd Edition

Published in 1996, Richard Jones's Garbage Collection was a milestone book in the area of automatic memory management. Its widely acclaimed successor, The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management, captured the state of the field in 2012 but this has once again grown considerably, sparking a need for an updated look at the latest state-of-the-art developments. This second edition updates the handbook, bringing together a wealth of knowledge gathered by automatic memory management researchers and developers over the past sixty 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 state-of-the-art parallel, incremental, concurrent and real-time garbage collection. Algorithms and concepts are often described with pseudocode and illustrations.

1996年出版的Richard Jones的《垃圾回收》是自動內存管理領域的里程碑之作。它廣受好評的續作《垃圾回收手冊：自動內存管理的藝術》於2012年捕捉到該領域的最新發展，但這個領域再次有了顯著的增長，因此需要對最新的最先進發展進行更新。第二版更新了手冊，匯集了過去六十年來自動內存管理研究人員和開發人員所積累的大量知識。作者們在一個易於理解的框架中比較了最重要的方法和最先進的技術。

該書探討了硬件和軟件的最新進展對垃圾回收提出的新挑戰。它探討了這些變化對高性能垃圾回收器的設計師和實現者的影響。除了簡單和傳統的算法外，該書還涵蓋了最先進的並行、增量、並發和實時垃圾回收。算法和概念通常用偽代碼和插圖來描述。

Richard Jones is Emeritus Professor of Computer Systems at the School of Computing, University of Kent, Canterbury. He received a BA in Mathematics from Oxford University in 1976. He spent a few years teaching before returning to higher education at the University of Kent, where he has remained ever since, receiving an MSc in Computer Science in 1989. In 1998, he co-founded the International Symposium on Memory Management, of which he was the inaugural Programme Chair. He has published numerous papers on garbage collection, heap visualisation and electronic publishing, and he regularly sits on the programme committees of leading international conferences. He was made an Honorary Fellow of the University of Glasgow in 2005 in recognition of his research and scholarship in dynamic memory management. He was named a Distinguished Scientist of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2006, and in 2014 made a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Fellow of the RSA and a member of AITO. He is married, with three children, and in his spare time he cycles and sails, including racing a Dart 18 catamaran.

Antony Hosking is Professor in the School of Computing at the Australian National University. He received a BSc in Mathematical Sciences from the University of Adelaide, Australia, in 1985, and an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Waikato, New Zealand, in 1987. He continued his graduate studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, receiving a PhD in Computer Science in 1995. His work is in the area of programming language design and implementation, with specific interests in database and persistent programming languages, object-oriented database systems, dynamic memory management, compiler optimisations, and architectural support for programming languages and applications. He was named a Distinguished Scientist of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2012, a member of AITO in 2013, and is a Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He regularly serves on programme and steering committees of major conferences, mostly focused on programming language design and implementation. He is married, with five children. When the opportunity arises, he most enjoys sitting somewhere behind the bowler's arm on the first day of any Test match at the Adelaide Oval.

Eliot Moss is Professor Emeritus in the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He received a BSEE in 1975, MSEE in 1978, and PhD in Computer Science in 1981, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. After four years of military service, he joined the Computer Science faculty at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He works in the area of programming languages and their implementation, and has built garbage collectors since 1978. In addition to his research on automatic memory management, he is known for his work on persistent programming languages, virtual machine implementation, transactional programming and transactional memory. He worked with IBM researchers to license the JikesRVM Java virtual machine for academic research, which eventually led to its release as an open source project. In 2007 he was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and in 2009 a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. In 2012 he was co-recipient of the Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing for work on transactional memory. He served for four years as Secretary of the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Programming Languages, and served on many programme and steering committees of the significant venues related to his areas of research. Ordained a priest of the Episcopal Church in 2005, he leads a congregation in addition to his full-time academic position. He is married, with two children. He enjoys listening to recorded books, movie-going and the company of cats, and has been known to play the harp.

Richard Jones是坎特伯雷肯特大學計算機系統名譽教授。他於1976年在牛津大學獲得數學學士學位。在教書幾年後，他回到肯特大學繼續深造，並於1989年獲得計算機科學碩士學位。1998年，他共同創辦了國際記憶管理研討會，並擔任首屆節目主席。他發表了許多關於垃圾回收、堆視覺化和電子出版的論文，並經常擔任領先國際會議的節目委員會成員。2005年，他因在動態內存管理方面的研究和學術成就獲得格拉斯哥大學的榮譽院士稱號。2006年，他被選為計算機協會的杰出科學家，並於2014年成為英國計算機學會的院士、RSA的院士和AITO的成員。他已婚，有三個孩子，業餘時間喜歡騎自行車和帆船，包括參加Dart 18雙體船的比賽。

Antony Hosking是澳大利亞國立大學計算機系的教授。他於1985年在澳洲阿德萊德大學獲得數學科學學士學位，並於1987年在紐西蘭怀卡托大學獲得計算機科學碩士學位。他在麻省大學阿默斯特分校繼續深造，於1995年獲得計算機科學博士學位。他的研究領域是編程語言設計和實現，專注於數據庫和持久性編程語言、面向對象的數據庫系統、動態內存管理、編譯器優化以及編程語言和應用的架構支持。2012年，他被選為計算機協會的杰出科學家，2013年成為AITO的成員，並且是電機和電子工程師學會的會員。他經常參與主要會議的節目和指導委員會，主要關注編程語言設計和實現。他已婚，有五個孩子。在機會出現時，他最喜歡坐在阿德萊德橢圓球場的投球手背後觀看測試賽的第一天。

Eliot Moss是麻省大學阿默斯特分校信息和計算機科學學院的名譽教授。他於1975年在麻省理工學院獲得電機工程學士學位，1978年獲得電機工程碩士學位，1981年獲得計算機科學博士學位。在四年的軍事服役後，他加入了麻省大學阿默斯特分校的計算機科學教職。他的研究領域是編程語言及其實現，並從1978年開始建立垃圾回收器。除了自動內存管理的研究外，他還以持久性編程語言、虛擬機實現、事務性編程和事務性內存等工作而聞名。他與IBM研究人員合作，將JikesRVM Java虛擬機授權給學術研究，最終將其作為開源項目發布。2007年，他被選為計算機協會的院士，2009年成為電機和電子工程師學會的院士。2012年，他與他人共同獲得了分散計算的Edsger W. Dijkstra獎。他曾擔任計算機協會編程語言特別利益小組的秘書長，並在許多與他的研究領域相關的重要場合擔任節目和指導委員會成員。他於2005年成為聖公會的牧師，除了全職學術職位外，還帶領一個教會團體。他已婚，有兩個孩子。他喜歡聽錄音書，看電影。