Implementer Lore About Garbage Collection

"Implementer lore" means "programming techniques that are only in a few experienced people's heads!"

It's not in textbooks. I've found that there is a lot of it with respect to implementing garbage collectors. The algorithms are one thing, but there are many nontrivial problems in the implementation. It interacts with the host language a lot, which is usually C, C++, or Assembly.

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• Clawing Our Way Back to Precision -- Mozilla, 2013
• Implementing a Garbage Collector in C++ -- about mjs, a JavaScript interpreter
• Lock-free Concurrent Garbage Collector for C++

Lore on another topic: Implementing Debuggers