Lumberjack is a log-structured persistent object store intended for use with conventional operating systems such as Unix. The design draws together facets of previous work, in par...
Garbage collection offers numerous software engineering advantages, but interacts poorly with virtual memory managers. Existing garbage collectors require far more pages than the ...
Long-running, heavily multi-threaded, Java server applications make stringent demands of garbage collector (GC) performance. Synchronisation of all application threads before garb...
At the heart of all garbage collectors lies the process of identifying and processing reference fields within an object. Despite its key role, and evidence of many different impl...
Robin Garner, Stephen M. Blackburn, Daniel Frampto...
Constructing correct concurrent garbage collection algorithms is notoriously hard. Numerous such algorithms have been proposed, implemented, and deployed – and yet the relations...