If a fixed exponentially decreasing probability distribution function is used to model every object’s lifetime, then the age of an object gives no information about its future ...
Currently, the most adopted criterion to invoke garbage collection is heap space exhaustion. In other words, garbage collection is invoked when the heap space (either the entire s...
This paper shows that Appel-style garbage collectors often make suboptimal decisions both in terms of when and how to collect. We argue that garbage collection should be done when ...
Abstract. While real-time garbage collection is now available in production virtual machines, the lack of generational capability means applications with high allocation rates are ...
Daniel Frampton, David F. Bacon, Perry Cheng, Davi...
Modern generational garbage collectors look for garbage among the young objects, because they have high mortality; however, these objects include the very youngest objects, which ...
Darko Stefanovic, Kathryn S. McKinley, J. Eliot B....