Re: Help finding a book and some gc references

Hi, I want to thank everyone for helping me with the book and reference 
counting gc references.

The best bet for the book is 'Functional Programming' by Anthony J. 
Field and Peter G. Harrison, as I have the others mentioned. Good books 
all of them, though I hardly need mention that here. I also found an old 
friend who has the book so I will borrow it from him. I wouldn't be 
surprised if it was his book I originally borrowed. :-)

Anyway, thanks again for the references,

Robert


Robert Virding wrote:
> 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
>
>