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IWMM
2010
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Tracing garbage collection on highly parallel platforms
The pervasiveness of multiprocessor and multicore hardware and the rising level of available parallelism are radically changing the computing landscape. Can software deal with tom...
Katherine Barabash, Erez Petrank
IWMM
2010
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Efficient memory shadowing for 64-bit architectures
Shadow memory is used by dynamic program analysis tools to store metadata for tracking properties of application memory. The efficiency of mapping between application memory and s...
Qin Zhao, Derek Bruening, Saman P. Amarasinghe
IWMM
2010
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
The economics of garbage collection
This paper argues that economic theory can improve our understanding of memory management. We introduce the allocation curve, as an analogue of the demand curve from microeconomic...
Jeremy Singer, Richard E. Jones, Gavin Brown, Mike...
IWMM
2010
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
The locality of concurrent write barriers
Concurrent and incremental collectors require barriers to ensure correct synchronisation between mutator and collector. The overheads imposed by particular barriers on particular ...
Laurence Hellyer, Richard Jones, Antony L. Hosking