The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management (2nd Ed)

The second edition of 'The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management' is now available. According to Hacker News, the handbook is a foundational reference for systems programmers and language runtime designers. It covers automatic memory management—the algorithms and theory of garbage collection, the invisible process that frees memory so developers don't have to think about it. While most programmers never think about garbage collection, the design patterns it teaches are fundamental to every programming language from Java to Go to Python.

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