Contents

• Introduction
  • Use Boehm
  • So Why Giggle at All?
  • More About Giggle
  • Audience
  • Assumptions
  • This Document
  
  
• Legal Shite
• Definitions
• Quick Start
  • Obtaining
  • Installation
  • Write Programs
  
  
• What Is Giggle?
• Obtaining
• Pre-Installation
• Installing
  • Step-by-Step Instructions
  • Directories & Files
  
  
• Tutorial for Programmers
  • Makefile
  • Source Code Basics
  • Smart Pointers & Garbage-Collected Objects
    • Runtime Initialization
    • Object Creation
    • The Rules
  • The Different Collectors
  
  
• Reference
  • Recipe for Use
    • On the Stack
    • On the Heap
  
  
• Making the Most of Garbage Collection
  • Don't Do Work in Destructors!
  • Consider Manual Deallocation as a Form of Optimization
  • Performance Tuning with High-Water
  • Hybrid Collector
  
  
• Writing Garbage Collectors
• Development Procedures
  • Building from the Sources
  • Making a Release
  
  
• Design Notes
  • Changing Garbage Collectors at Run-Time
  • Mixing-up Algorithms
  
  
• Performance & Lessons Learned
• History
• The Future, a To-Do list
  • Briefly
  • Remove Cruft
  • Revamp the Tests
  • Boehm Collector Leaks
  • Thread-Safe
  • Incremental
  
  
• Contributors
• About this document ...