On 2014-01-10 10:56, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
Can you recommend some good background reading for those of us who would love to have some input (or at least insight) to this, but don't yet have the theoretical understanding?
There's the classic The Garbage Collection Handbook. Here in a later edition:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Garbage-Collection-Handbook-Management/dp/1420082795 -- /Jacob Carlborg
