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Tax-and-spend: democratic scheduling for real-time garbage collection

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Tax-and-spend: democratic scheduling for real-time garbage collection
Real-time Garbage Collection (RTGC) has recently advanced to the point where it is being used in production for financial trading, military command-and-control, and telecommunications. However, among potential users of RTGC, there is enormous diversity in both application requirements and deployment environments. Previously described RTGCs tend to work well in a narrow band of possible environments, leading to fragile systems and limiting adoption of real-time garbage collection technology. This paper introduces a collector scheduling methodology called tax-and-spend and the collector design revisions needed to support it. Tax-and-spend provides a general mechanism which works well across a variety of application, machine, and operating system configurations. Tax-and-spend subsumes the predominant pre-existing RTGC scheduling techniques. It allows different policies to be applied in different contexts depending on the needs of the application. Virtual machines can co-exist composition...
Joshua S. Auerbach, David F. Bacon, Perry Cheng, D
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Type Conference
Year 2008
Where EMSOFT
Authors Joshua S. Auerbach, David F. Bacon, Perry Cheng, David Grove, Ben Biron, Charlie Gracie, Bill McCloskey, Aleksandar Micic, Ryan Sciampacone
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