This essay presents remarkable similarities between transactional memory and garbage collection. The connections are fascinating in their own right, and they let us better underst...
Automatic memory management or garbage collection greatly simplifies the development of large systems. However, garbage collection is usually not used in real-time systems due to...
We have implemented the first copying garbage collector that permits continuous unimpeded mutator access to the original objects during copying. The garbage collector incremental...
Several papers ([Appe189],[Goldberg9 1]) have recently claimed that garbage collection can be performed on untagged data in the presence of ML-style type polymorphism. They rely o...
Magpie is a source-to-source transformation for C programs that enables precise garbage collection, where precise means that integers are not confused with pointers, and the liven...
Jon Rafkind, Adam Wick, John Regehr, Matthew Flatt