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Exploration of memory hierarchy configurations for efficient garbage collection on high-performance embedded systems

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Exploration of memory hierarchy configurations for efficient garbage collection on high-performance embedded systems
Modern embedded devices (e.g., PDAs, mobile phones) are now incorporating Java as a very popular implementation language in their designs. These new embedded systems include multiple applications that are dynamically launched by the user, which can produce very energy-hungry systems if the interactions between the applications and the garbage collectors (GCs) are not properly understood. In this paper we present a complete exploration, from an energy viewpoint, of the different possibilities of memory hierarchies for high-performance embedded systems when used by state-of-the-art GCs. Moreover, we explore the potential peformance improvement and energy reductions of using a scratchpad memory directed by the virtual machine to store critical code and data structures of the GCs; thus, enabling up to 40% performance improvements and 41% leakage reduction with respect to classical cache-based memory architectures. Our experimental results show that the key for an efficient low-power imple...
José Manuel Velasco, David Atienza, Katzali
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Updated 16 Aug 2010
Type Conference
Year 2009
Where GLVLSI
Authors José Manuel Velasco, David Atienza, Katzalin Olcoz
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