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2004
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Experience with safe manual memory-management in cyclone
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...
Michael W. Hicks, J. Gregory Morrisett, Dan Grossm...
IWMM
2004
Springer
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Write barrier elision for concurrent garbage collectors
Concurrent garbage collectors require write barriers to preserve consistency, but these barriers impose significant direct and indirect costs. While there has been a lot of work ...
Martin T. Vechev, David F. Bacon
IWMM
2004
Springer
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Exploring the barrier to entry: incremental generational garbage collection for Haskell
We document the design and implementation of a “production” incremental garbage collector for GHC 6.2. It builds on our earlier work (Non-stop Haskell) that exploited GHC’s ...
Andrew M. Cheadle, A. J. Field, Simon Marlow, Simo...
IWMM
2004
Springer
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Automatic heap sizing: taking real memory into account
Heap size has a huge impact on the performance of garbage collected applications. A heap that barely meets the application’s needs causes excessive GC overhead, while a heap tha...
Ting Yang, Matthew Hertz, Emery D. Berger, Scott F...
IWMM
2004
Springer
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Dynamic object sampling for pretenuring
Many state-of-the-art garbage collectors are generational, collecting the young nursery objects more frequently than old objects. These collectors perform well because young objec...
Maria Jump, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKin...