On Friday, 10 January 2014 at 09:57:18 UTC, Joseph Rushton
Wakeling wrote:
On 10/01/14 09:03, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
The GC comes up repeatedly in discussions around here. I've
been thinking for a
while about breaking it down into components, and now it seems
the time is ripe.
The design at http://goo.gl/ZVCJeB seems to be a win. It works
well, comprehends
all major allocation tropes, someone implemented a subset of
it in C++ and
measured good results, and a coworker is considering adopting
the design for a
C++ project as well.
I've started with the next logical step - higher-level
allocation that is aware
of the type of the object being allocated, and realized that
integrating a
notion of tracing is appropriate at that level, and actually
quite easy. So I'm
thinking of just doing it.
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?
Two good books
http://www.amazon.de/The-Garbage-Collection-Handbook-Management/dp/1420082795
http://www.amazon.de/Garbage-Collection-Algorithms-Automatic-Management/dp/0471941484
