Sciweavers

6 search results - page 1 / 2
» On the usefulness of type and liveness accuracy for garbage ...
Sort
View
ECOOP
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
On the Usefulness of Liveness for Garbage Collection and Leak Detection
Abstract. The effectiveness of garbage collectors and leak detectors in identifying dead objects depends on the “accuracy” of their reachability traversal. Accuracy has two ort...
Martin Hirzel, Amer Diwan, Antony L. Hosking
POPL
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Cork: dynamic memory leak detection for garbage-collected languages
A memory leak in a garbage-collected program occurs when the program inadvertently maintains references to objects that it no longer needs. Memory leaks cause systematic heap grow...
Maria Jump, Kathryn S. McKinley
ASPLOS
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Leak pruning
Managed languages improve programmer productivity with type safety and garbage collection, which eliminate memory errors such as dangling pointers, double frees, and buffer overfl...
Michael D. Bond, Kathryn S. McKinley
LFP
1994
113views more  LFP 1994»
13 years 6 months ago
Collecting More Garbage
We present a method, adapted to polymorphically typed functional languages, to detect and collect more garbage than existing GCs. It can be applied to strict or lazy higher order ...
Pascal Fradet