Summary of the last decade of garbage collection?

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Published on 2010-05-26T17:42:23Z Indexed on 2010/05/26 17:51 UTC
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I've been reading through the Jones & Lin book on garbage collection, which was published in 1996.

Obviously, the computing world has changed dramatically since then: multicore, out-of-order chips with large caches, and even larger main memory in desktops. The world has also more-or-less settled on the x86 and ARM microarchitectures for most consumer-facing systems.

How has the field of garbage collection changed since the seminal book was published?

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