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2005
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Age-Oriented Concurrent Garbage Collection
Abstract. Generational collectors are well known as a tool for shortening pause times incurred by garbage collection and for improving garbage collection efficiency. In this paper,...
Harel Paz, Erez Petrank, Stephen M. Blackburn
VSTTE
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Reusable Verification of a Copying Collector
Garbage collectors are very hard to implement correctly due to their low-level manipulation of memory. In this paper, we construct a copying garbage collector which we have proved ...
Magnus O. Myreen
PLDI
2005
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Garbage collection without paging
Garbage collection offers numerous software engineering advantages, but interacts poorly with virtual memory managers. Existing garbage collectors require far more pages than the ...
Matthew Hertz, Yi Feng, Emery D. Berger
ICFP
2002
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
An experimental study of renewal-older-first garbage collection
Generational collection has improved the efficiency of garbage collection in fast-allocating programs by focusing on collecting young garbage, but has done little to reduce the co...
Lars Thomas Hansen, William D. Clinger
CC
2007
Springer
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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