This essay presents remarkable similarities between transactional memory and garbage collection. The connections are fascinating in their own right, and they let us better underst...
Several papers ([Appe189],[Goldberg9 1]) have recently claimed that garbage collection can be performed on untagged data in the presence of ML-style type polymorphism. They rely o...
Magpie is a source-to-source transformation for C programs that enables precise garbage collection, where precise means that integers are not confused with pointers, and the liven...
Jon Rafkind, Adam Wick, John Regehr, Matthew Flatt
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...
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 ...