Readings; GarbageCollectionLinks
The Memory Management Reference
http://www.harlequin.com/mm/reference/
"A resource for everyone interested in memory management and garbage collection. Harlequin has many years of experience in the advanced memory management techniques needed by Lisp, Dylan,
ML, and the PostScript® language. These pages concentrate some of the best knowledge in the field."
IBM's JDK Implementation Techniques
http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj39-1.html
A series of excellent articles about IBM's quest for a well-performing JVM. Included are important techniques for heap allocation, garbage collection, and many miscellaneous performance enhancements.
Want to know more about Linux-style virtual memory management? See also Linux Programming White Papers, a book published by Coriallis. It best explains the concepts of page fault, swap file and other concepts through working source code from the Linux kernel.
This book is a reprint of papers from the Linux Documentation Project (LDP), available on-line. -- GilbertHerschberger (11 February 2000).