PARLE
1991
14 years 2 months ago
1991
It is shown that the terminationdetection problem for distributed computations can be modeled as an instance of the garbage collection problem. Consequently, algorithms for the te...
IWMM
2000
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2000
Springer
We investigate reference counting in the context of a multithreaded architecture by exploiting two observations: (1) reference-counting can be performed by a transformed program s...
OOPSLA
2001
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2001
Springer
Reference counting is not naturally suitable for running on multiprocessors. The update of pointers and reference counts requires atomic and synchronized operations. We present a ...
TACAS
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2009
Springer
Reference counting is a widely-used resource management idiom which maintains a count of references to each resource by incrementing the count upon an acquisition, and decrementing...