As the gap between memory and processor speeds continues to widen, cache efficiency is an increasingly important component of processor performance. Compiler techniques have been...
New network technology continues to improve both the latency and bandwidth of communication in computer clusters. The fastest high-speed networks approach or exceed the I/O bus ba...
Ken Yocum, Jeffrey S. Chase, Andrew J. Gallatin, A...
The Data Diffusion Machine is a scalable virtual shared memory architecture. A hierarchical network is used to ensure that all data can be located in a time bounded by O(logp), wh...
Henk L. Muller, Paul W. A. Stallard, David H. D. W...
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
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...