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WOSP
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
A page fault equation for dynamic heap sizing
For garbage-collected applications, dynamically-allocated objects are contained in a heap. Programmer productivity improves significantly if there is a garbage collector to autom...
Y. C. Tay, X. R. Zong
IWMM
2010
Springer
214views Hardware» more  IWMM 2010»
13 years 9 months ago
The economics of garbage collection
This paper argues that economic theory can improve our understanding of memory management. We introduce the allocation curve, as an analogue of the demand curve from microeconomic...
Jeremy Singer, Richard E. Jones, Gavin Brown, Mike...
IWMM
2007
Springer
146views Hardware» more  IWMM 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
Allocation-phase aware thread scheduling policies to improve garbage collection performance
Past studies have shown that objects are created and then die in phases. Thus, one way to sustain good garbage collection efficiency is to have a large enough heap to allow many ...
Feng Xian, Witawas Srisa-an, Hong Jiang
APLAS
2006
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
A Localized Tracing Scheme Applied to Garbage Collection
We present a method to visit all nodes in a forest of data structures while taking into account object placement. We call the technique a Localized Tracing Scheme as it improves lo...
Yannis Chicha, Stephen M. Watt
ASPLOS
2004
ACM
13 years 10 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...