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PLDI
1997
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Generational Garbage Collection and the Radioactive Decay Model
If a fixed exponentially decreasing probability distribution function is used to model every object’s lifetime, then the age of an object gives no information about its future ...
William D. Clinger, Lars Thomas Hansen
OOPSLA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Fortune teller: improving garbage collection performance in server environment using live objects prediction
Currently, the most adopted criterion to invoke garbage collection is heap space exhaustion. In other words, garbage collection is invoked when the heap space (either the entire s...
Feng Xian, Witawas Srisa-an, Hong Jiang
HIPEAC
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Garbage Collection Hints
This paper shows that Appel-style garbage collectors often make suboptimal decisions both in terms of when and how to collect. We argue that garbage collection should be done when ...
Dries Buytaert, Kris Venstermans, Lieven Eeckhout,...
ECOOP
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Generational Real-Time Garbage Collection
Abstract. While real-time garbage collection is now available in production virtual machines, the lack of generational capability means applications with high allocation rates are ...
Daniel Frampton, David F. Bacon, Perry Cheng, Davi...
OOPSLA
1999
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Age-Based Garbage Collection
Modern generational garbage collectors look for garbage among the young objects, because they have high mortality; however, these objects include the very youngest objects, which ...
Darko Stefanovic, Kathryn S. McKinley, J. Eliot B....