By combining existing type systems with standard typebased compilation techniques, we describe how to write strongly typed programs that include a function that acts as a tracing ...
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
Convenience, reliability, and effectiveness of automatic memory management have long been established in modern systems and programming languages such as Java. The timeliness req...
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...
The progress of mobile device technology unfolds a new spectrum of applications that challenges conventional infrastructure models. Most of these devices are perceived by their us...