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CC
2001
Springer
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14 years 5 days ago
Constant-Time Root Scanning for Deterministic Garbage Collection
Root scanning is the task of identifying references to heap objects that are stored outside of the heap itself, in global and local variables and on the execution stack. Root scann...
Fridtjof Siebert
IWMM
2011
Springer
206views Hardware» more  IWMM 2011»
12 years 10 months ago
A comprehensive evaluation of object scanning techniques
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...
SP
2003
IEEE
116views Security Privacy» more  SP 2003»
14 years 28 days ago
Garbage Collector Memory Accounting in Language-Based Systems
Language run-time systems are often called upon to safely execute mutually distrustful tasks within the same runtime, protecting them from other tasks’ bugs or otherwise hostile...
David W. Price, Algis Rudys, Dan S. Wallach
IWMM
2010
Springer
137views Hardware» more  IWMM 2010»
13 years 11 months ago
The locality of concurrent write barriers
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
IWMM
2010
Springer
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14 years 14 days ago
Tracing garbage collection on highly parallel platforms
The pervasiveness of multiprocessor and multicore hardware and the rising level of available parallelism are radically changing the computing landscape. Can software deal with tom...
Katherine Barabash, Erez Petrank