Memory Management

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Memory Management

This book is intended for advanced readers.

Contents 1 Preface 2 Table of Contents 2.1 Basic Garbage Collection 2.2 Memory Allocation and Management 2.3 Garbage Collectors 2.4 Parallelism and Concurrency 3 Resources and Licensing

[edit] Preface

[edit] Table of Contents

• Introduction
• History of Memory Management
• Terminology

[edit] Basic Garbage Collection

• Manual Memory Management
• Garbage Collection
• Collector Performance

[edit] Memory Allocation and Management

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

[edit] Garbage Collectors

• Cooperative GC
• Uncooperative GC
• Hybrid Collector Theory

[edit] Parallelism and Concurrency

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

[edit] Resources and Licensing

• Resources
• Licensing