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IWMM
2011
Springer
206views Hardware» more  IWMM 2011»
12 years 8 months ago
A comprehensive evaluation of object scanning techniques
At the heart of all garbage collectors lies the process of identifying and processing reference fields within an object. Despite its key role, and evidence of many different impl...
Robin Garner, Stephen M. Blackburn, Daniel Frampto...
CGO
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 days ago
Run-Time Support for Optimizations Based on Escape Analysis
The JavaTM programming language does not allow the programmer to influence memory management. An object is usually allocated on the heap and deallocated by the garbage collector ...
Thomas Kotzmann, Hanspeter Mössenböck
OOPSLA
2004
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
The garbage collection advantage: improving program locality
As improvements in processor speed continue to outpace improvements in cache and memory speed, poor locality increasingly degrades performance. Because copying garbage collectors ...
Xianglong Huang, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. ...
VEE
2006
ACM
178views Virtualization» more  VEE 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
Impact of virtual execution environments on processor energy consumption and hardware adaptation
During recent years, microprocessor energy consumption has been surging and efforts to reduce power and energy have received a lot of attention. At the same time, virtual executio...
Shiwen Hu, Lizy Kurian John
ASPLOS
2004
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Software prefetching for mark-sweep garbage collection: hardware analysis and software redesign
Tracing garbage collectors traverse references from live program variables, transitively tracing out the closure of live objects. Memory accesses incurred during tracing are essen...
Chen-Yong Cher, Antony L. Hosking, T. N. Vijaykuma...