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ECOOP
2005
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Derivation and Evaluation of Concurrent Collectors
There are many algorithms for concurrent garbage collection, but they are complex to describe, verify, and implement. This has resulted in a poor understanding of the relationships...
Martin T. Vechev, David F. Bacon, Perry Cheng, Dav...
CF
2009
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Space-and-time efficient garbage collectors for parallel systems
As multithreaded server applications and runtime systems prevail, garbage collection is becoming an essential feature to support high performance systems. The fundamental issue of...
Shaoshan Liu, Ligang Wang, Xiao-Feng Li, Jean-Luc ...
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
2000
Springer
113views Hardware» more  IWMM 2000»
15 years 3 months ago
On the Effectiveness of GC in Java
We study the effectiveness of garbage collection (GC) algorithms by measuring the time difference between the actual collection time of an object and the potential earliest collec...
Ran Shaham, Elliot K. Kolodner, Shmuel Sagiv
IWMM
2004
Springer
82views Hardware» more  IWMM 2004»
15 years 5 months ago
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