Understanding the Java Memory Model and Garbage Collection [closed]

Answer 1

Memory Basics

• What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory - Ulrich Drepper [PDF]

Java Language and Virtual Machine Specifications

• The Java Virtual Machine Specification [PDF and HTML for Java SE 7]

Java Memory Model

• Advanced Topics in Programming: The Java Memory Model - Jeremy Manson [video]
• Collection of Resources on the Java Memory Model - edited and compiled by Bill Pugh (collection)
• Memory Management in the HotSpot Virtual Machine - Sun Microsystems (2006) [PDF]
• Fixing the Java Memory Model - Brian Goetz, IBM Java Developer Series () [part 1, part 2]

Java Performance

• 9 Fallacies of Java Performance - Ben Evans [video + slides]
• JVM Performance Magic Tricks - Takipi [blog + slides]
• Java and the Machine - Kirk Pepperdine, Martijn Verburg [video + slides]
• Performance Testing Java Applications - Martin Thompson [video + slides]
• Building Memory-Efficient Java Applications: Practices and Challenges - Mitchell, Sevitsky (2009) [PDF]

Advanced Topics and Real-Life Uses Cases

• Optimizing Google’s Warehouse Scale Computers: The NUMA Experience - University of California & Google [PDF]
• MegaPipe: A New Programming Interface for Scalable Network I/O [Google Doc]
• Mythbusting modern hardware to gain "Mechanical Sympathy" - Martin Thompson [PDF] (slides)
• Caching in: understand, measure and use your CPU Cache more effectively - Richard Warburton [video + slides]
• A JVM Does That?! - Cliff Click [video]

GC Tuning

• Hotspot Garbage Collection - Tuning Guide - Martijn Verburg, John Oliver [video, slides pt 1, slides pt 2]
• Are your GC logs speaking to you, the G1GC edition [slides, video]
• The Principles of Java Application Performance Tuning [article]
• Everything I Ever Learned About JVM Performance Tuning @Twitter - Attila Szegedi [video & slides]
• Visualizing Java GC - Ben Evans [video + slides]

Complementary StackExchange Questions and Answers

• Java Memory Model
• JRockit JVM versus HotSpot JVM
• How to destroy java objects?
• Smart Garbage Collection?

_{And many, many more to come that I need to dig up from my archives or from the inter-tubes.}

Answer 2

William Pugh, one of the authors of "JSR-133: Java Memory Model and Thread Specification" maintains a webpage about the memory model here:

http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/

The complete JSR-133 can be found here:

http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/jsr133.pdf

Also relevant is the Java Language Specification, Section 17.4 Memory Model:

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/jls-17.html#jls-17.4