We consider the problem of converting C pointers to the less flexible concept of references. Our main application is converting scientific applications from C to Java. We provid...
As part of an investigation of scalable development techniques for systems written in the JavaTM programming language, the Forest Project is building JP, a prototype distributed pr...
In Self 4.0, people write programs by directly constructing webs of objects in a larger world of objects. But in order to save or share these programs, the objects must be moved t...
Many Java programmers believe they do not have to worry about memory management because of automatic garbage collection. In fact, many Java programs run out of memory unexpectedly ...
The performance of automatic memory management may be improved if the policies used in allocating and collecting objects had knowledge of the lifetimes of objects. To date, approa...