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MODELS
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Dead or Alive: finding zombie features in the Linux kernel
Variability management in operating systems is an errorprone and tedious task. This is especially true for the Linux operating system, which provides a specialized tool called Kco...
Reinhard Tartler, Julio Sincero, Wolfgang Schr&oum...
IWMM
2009
Springer
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Live heap space analysis for languages with garbage collection
The peak heap consumption of a program is the maximum size of the live data on the heap during the execution of the program, i.e., the minimum amount of heap space needed to run t...
Elvira Albert, Samir Genaim, Miguel Gómez-Z...
IWMM
2009
Springer
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Precise garbage collection for C
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
IWMM
2009
Springer
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Investigating the effects of using different nursery sizing policies on performance
In this paper, we investigate the effects of using three different nursery sizing policies on overall and garbage collection performances. As part of our investigation, we modify ...
Xiaohua Guan, Witawas Srisa-an, ChengHuan Jia
IWMM
2009
Springer
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Scalable support for multithreaded applications on dynamic binary instrumentation systems
Dynamic binary instrumentation systems are used to inject or modify arbitrary instructions in existing binary applications; several such systems have been developed over the past ...
Kim M. Hazelwood, Greg Lueck, Robert Cohn
IWMM
2009
Springer
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A new approach to parallelising tracing algorithms
Tracing algorithms visit reachable nodes in a graph and are central to activities such as garbage collection, marshalling etc. Traditional sequential algorithms use a worklist, re...
Cosmin E. Oancea, Alan Mycroft, Stephen M. Watt
IWMM
2009
Springer
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Garbage collection in the next C++ standard
: © Garbage Collection in the Next C++ Standard Hans-J. Boehm, Mike Spertus HP Laboratories HPL-2009-360 C++, garbage collection C++ has traditionally relied on manual memory mana...
Hans-Juergen Boehm, Mike Spertus
IWMM
2009
Springer
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Two memory allocators that use hints to improve locality
Alin Jula, Lawrence Rauchwerger
IWMM
2009
Springer
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Parametric heap usage analysis for functional programs
This paper presents an analysis that derives a formula describing the worst-case live heap space usage of programs in a functional language with automated memory management (garba...
Leena Unnikrishnan, Scott D. Stoller