This is the first book entirely dedicated to the problem ofmemory management in programming language implementation.Its originality stems from the diversity of languages andapproaches presented: functional programming, logicprogramming, object oriented programming, and parallel andsequential programming.The book contains 29 selected and refereed papers including3 survey papers, 4 on distributed systems, 4 on parallelism,4 on functional languages, 3 on logic programming languages,3 on object oriented languages, 3 on incremental garbagecollection, 2 on improving locality, 2 on massively parallelarchitectures, and an invited paper on the thermodynamics ofgarbage collection.The book provides a snapshot of the latest research in thedomain of memory management for high-level programminglanguage implementations.
