Garbage Collection and Real-time Garbage Collection Introduction

Here are some documents and slides you may find useful when studying Garbage Collection and Real-time Garbage Collection:

First, look at SUN's
Memory Management in the Java HotSpotTM Virtual Machine. Its from 2006 but contains a very nice introduction to GC, even parallel and small-pause collection algorithms are mentioned.

An another introduction slides are:
GC Introduction Presentation

When looking at performance of GCs, look at a nice study
Myths & Realities The Performance Impact of Garbage Collection from Steve Blackburn, Perry Cheng and Kathryn McKinley.

For interesting implementation details, I recommend:

• Barrier techniques for incremental tracing 
• And Schism GC paper presented at PLDI (2010), contains also a very nice performance statistics.
• GC FAQ