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WOSP
2010
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
A page fault equation for dynamic heap sizing
For garbage-collected applications, dynamically-allocated objects are contained in a heap. Programmer productivity improves significantly if there is a garbage collector to autom...
Y. C. Tay, X. R. Zong
PLDI
2009
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
GC assertions: using the garbage collector to check heap properties
This paper introduces GC assertions, a system interface that programmers can use to check for errors, such as data structure invariant violations, and to diagnose performance prob...
Edward Aftandilian, Samuel Z. Guyer
CC
2007
Springer
139views System Software» more  CC 2007»
15 years 6 months ago
Using Prefetching to Improve Reference-Counting Garbage Collectors
Reference counting is a classical garbage collection method. Recently, a series of papers have extended the basic method to drastically reduce its notorious overhead and extend the...
Harel Paz, Erez Petrank
IWMM
2004
Springer
90views Hardware» more  IWMM 2004»
15 years 5 months ago
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...
EMSOFT
2006
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
A superblock-based flash translation layer for NAND flash memory
In NAND flash-based storage systems, an intermediate software layer called a flash translation layer (FTL) is usually employed to hide the erase-before-write characteristics of NA...
Jeong-Uk Kang, Heeseung Jo, Jinsoo Kim, Joonwon Le...