[seanmcdirmid]

> Best editor (just kidding)?

Writing your own editor can be as much fun as writing your own garbage collector.

The "garbage collection" book is the only physical one I still own (everything else given away and in e-form now). It is a fascinating book, and gives you insights into PL run-time systems that you wouldn't get as easily studying other algorithms.

[epsylon]

And which book is that?

edit: I'm guessing "The Garbage Collection handbook", by Richard Jones et al. Looks like an interesting read.

[seanmcdirmid]

I have the earlier blue bound cover book (just called "Garbage Collection"). The book you are referring to is brand new and I haven't looked at it yet, but given that the first authors are the same, it should be good.

[silentbicycle]

I've had and enjoyed both. The latter has less about the fundamentals, but adds chapters on real-time GCs, concurrent GCs, and other advanced material. (Most of whose research probably came out after the first edition.)

If you're interested in GCs, I would suggest getting the newer edition for advanced material, and deferring to freely available papers such as Wilson's "Uniprocessor Garbage Collection Techniques" for fundamentals.

[Someone]

You are right about writing an editor. I only thought about the eternal discussion about what's better: escape-jkl;-i or shift-alt-meta-coke bottle.

And yes, that blue book on garbage collection is worth reading; it's on my bookshelf, too. I'm still looking for something similar on text editors or spreadsheets.