Help finding a book and some gc references

Hi, I need some help finding the name of a book.

The book is quite old, from the late eighties. I can't remember the name 
of even the general content. However, there was a chapter in the book 
about reference counting garbage collection and how to make it 
interactive without long pause times. The author used something he 
called a TBD list (to be dereferenced) where you push references to 
objects which are to have the reference count decremented. When an 
object is completely deferenced then its children are pushed on the 
stack and so you avoid having to potentially free a large object in one 
go. I know the technique is described in many places, but this 
description was very understandable. And I remember the rest of the book 
as well, but I had only borrowed the book.

Any help in finding the book would be greatly appreciated.

My next request is about more modern references to articles and papers 
to doing efficient reference counting gc in smp systems. There again I 
had read a paper on the net with many interesting references but of 
course I forgot to save the paper. Any help with modern references to 
reference counting gc in smp or other multiprocessor systems would be 
greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance for any help,

Robert Virding