Memory Management

Table of Contents

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This book is intended for advanced readers.

• Introduction
• History of Memory Management
• Terminology

Basic Garbage Collection

• Manual Memory Management
• Garbage Collection
• Collector Performance

Memory Allocation and Management

• Stacks and Heaps
• Pages and Superpages
• Valid Pointer Detection
• Memory Compacting

Garbage Collectors

• Cooperative GC
• Uncooperative GC
• Hybrid Collector Theory

Parallelism and Concurrency

• Threading and Concurrency Problems
• Thread-Local Storage
• Object Producers and Consumers
• Multithreaded Collectors

Resources and Licensing

• Resources
• Licensing