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IWMM
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2000
Springer
We investigate reference counting in the context of a multithreaded architecture by exploiting two observations: (1) reference-counting can be performed by a transformed program s...
OOPSLA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2005
Springer
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...
IWMM
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Springer
The goal of the Cyclone project is to investigate type safety for low-level languages such as C. Our hardest challenge has been providing programmers control over memory managemen...
PLDI
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
Garbage collection offers numerous software engineering advantages, but interacts poorly with virtual memory managers. Existing garbage collectors require far more pages than the ...
ASPLOS
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2004
ACM
Tracing garbage collectors traverse references from live program variables, transitively tracing out the closure of live objects. Memory accesses incurred during tracing are essen...