IWMM
2011
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
2011
Springer
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...
JOT
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Object-oriented programming languages are being widely adopted as one of the most powerful languages due their flexibility and reusability. However, these languages suffer from me...
PATMOS
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
Abstract. Modern embedded devices (e.g. PDAs, mobile phones) are now incorporating Java as a very popular implementation language in their designs. These new embedded systems inclu...
HIPEAC
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
This paper shows that Appel-style garbage collectors often make suboptimal decisions both in terms of when and how to collect. We argue that garbage collection should be done when ...
POPL
2009
ACM
15 years 14 days ago
2009
ACM
Garbage collectors are notoriously hard to verify, due to their lowlevel interaction with the underlying system and the general difficulty in reasoning about reachability in graph...