Computers

A collection of papers on garbage collection, memory allocation, and the like from the OOPS Research Group at the University of Texas at Austin. Includes papers from the OOPSLA Workshops on Garbage Collection in 1990, 1991, and 1993.

Group at UMass that includes the Object Systems Laboratory, an active memory management research group.

A resource for programmers and computer scientists interested in memory management and garbage collection. Includes a bibliography of influential authors and papers in the field. Links to a glossary and a beginner's guide to the field.

Article by Doug Lea about the design of his well-known "Lea" memory allocator.

Links to ptmalloc, a multithreaded-variant of Doug Lea's memory allocator.

A debug heap for *nix. Captures buffer overwrites, memory leaks, stale pointers, most buffer underflows, and can provide statistics on block sizes.

Malloc replacement with debugging features.

Conference focused on research in management of dynamically allocated memory. Ottawa, Canada.

Richard Jones wrote Garbage Collection: Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management", the first English book concerned solely with garbage collection. Garbage collection page has FAQs, and a bibliography.