Re: Help finding a book and some gc references

A look at Richard Jones' GC bibliography may help. 
http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/rej/gcbib/gcbib.html

giuliano

Robert Virding wrote, on 10/14/2008 12:57 PM:
> 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
>