While uniprocessor garbage collection is relatively well understood, experience with collectors for large multiprocessor servers is limited and it is unknown which techniques best ...
C. Richard Attanasio, David F. Bacon, Anthony Cocc...
Generational garbage collectors are able to achieve very small pause times by concentrating on the youngest (most recently allocated) objects when collecting, since objects have b...
Antony L. Hosking, J. Eliot B. Moss, Darko Stefano...
There are many algorithms for concurrent garbage collection, but they are complex to describe, verify, and implement. This has resulted in a poor understanding of the relationships...
Martin T. Vechev, David F. Bacon, Perry Cheng, Dav...
Mark and sweep garbage collectors (GC) are classical but still very efficient automatic memory management systems. Although challenged by other kinds of systems, such as copying c...
Dominique Colnet, Philippe Coucaud, Olivier Zendra
The pervasiveness of multiprocessor and multicore hardware and the rising level of available parallelism are radically changing the computing landscape. Can software deal with tom...