My apologies for going off topic for a second, but is it well-known that Amazon seems to use Uber-esque surge pricing?! I (like apparently a lot of people) went to Amazon to buy the book cited as soon as I saw it (and it looks like a great book!). There were eight copies left in stock, and I bought it for $62.69.[1] When I went back to Amazon a few minutes later (following someone else's link), there was only one copy left in stock, and it was listed for $98.60.[2] With my apologies again for being off-topic, is this a known phenomenon?
Anyway, thanks for seconding their recommendation of the book; I'm looking forward to reading it -- and glad I saved the 35 clams!
As another poster said, these aren't 100% identical books, but you can see that for exactly the same book, too, if two booksellers that sell through the Amazon web site have bots that try to outsmart each other. For an extreme example, see http://news.discovery.com/tech/amazon-lists-books-for-23-mil...
Check again later, and you may see the price go back down (or up higher). There are third-party price history trackers for Amazon as well that let you see the volatility of prices for specific items over time.
Garbage Collection: Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management is the original book, whereas The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management is the new and updated version. I have the original, but it would be nice to know everything the new book adds.
Anyway, thanks for seconding their recommendation of the book; I'm looking forward to reading it -- and glad I saved the 35 clams!
[1] https://www.evernote.com/shard/s249/sh/53d7b93a-d737-41c4-8e...
[2] https://www.evernote.com/shard/s249/sh/a1c55244-d64e-40cc-a6...