Garbage Collectors

Universally acclaimed as the book on garbage collection. A complete and up-to-date revision of the 2012 Garbage Collection Handbook. Thorough coverage of parallel, concurrent and real-time garbage collection algortithms including C4, Garbage First, LXR, Shenandoah, Transactional Sapphire and ZGC, and garbage collection on the GPU. Clear explanation of the trickier aspects of garbage collection, including the interface to the run-time system, handling of finalisation and weak references, and support for dynamic languages. New chapters on energy aware garbage collection, and persistence and garbage collection. The e-book includes more than 40,000 hyperlinks to algorithms, figures, glossary entries, indexed items, original research papers and much more. Backed by a comprehensive online database of over 3,400 garbage collection-related publications

Food wrappers, plastic bottles, napkins, and crumpled-up homework...we create a lot of waste. For people living in cities around the world, garbage collectors come each week to pick up household waste. Not only do garbage collectors lift heavy bins hundreds of times each shift, they also have to wake up very early in the morning and work in harsh weather conditions. Readers will learn what it takes to be a garbage collector and why this difficult job is so important. Full-color photographs help readers understand what being a garbage collector requires and fact boxes provide them with additional information.

Who disposes of your garbage when your trash can is full? Garbage collectors are very important to keeping your community clean. Carefully leveled text and fresh, vibrant photos engage young readers in learning about how garbage collectors serve their community. Age-appropriate critical thinking questions and a photo glossary help build nonfiction learning skills.

Young readers will love being able to ride along with garbage collectors in this fun text. Engaging photographs help learners understand where our trash goes and why these workers are so important to our communities.

Eliminating unwanted or invalid information from a computer's memory can dramatically improve the speed and officiency of the program. this reference presents full descriptions of the most important algorithms used for this eliminatino, called garbage collection. Each algorith is explained in detail with examples illustrating different results.

Do you hear that? It's a garbage truck! Learn all about being a garbage collector. Readers will get the inside scoop on the different parts of the job, the machines grabage collectors use, and how people get this exciting job.

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Oscar loves trash and garbage collectors! Garbage collectors pick up garbage, recycling, and yard waste. Learn more about these community helpers!

"Explains the work of garbage collectors, including their functions, tools, and training." -- T.p. verso.

This book follows a garbage collector through the work day, and describes the occupation and what the job requires.

"Where would we be without garbage collectors? They pick up our trash, help sort our recycling, and keep our neighborhoods clean. In this book, young readers will learn about the hardworking individuals who collect our trash."