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Garbage-first garbage collection

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Christine Flood,

Tony PrintezisAuthors Info & Claims

ISMM '04: Proceedings of the 4th international symposium on Memory management

Pages 37 - 48

https://doi.org/10.1145/1029873.1029879

Published: 24 October 2004 Publication History

Abstract

<i>Garbage-First</i> is a server-style garbage collector, targeted for multi-processors with large memories, that meets a soft real-time goal with high probability, while achieving high throughput. Whole-heap operations, such as global marking, are performed concurrently with mutation, to prevent interruptions proportional to heap or live-data size. Concurrent marking both provides collection "completeness" and identifies regions ripe for reclamation via compacting evacuation. This evacuation is performed in parallel on multiprocessors, to increase throughput.

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Garbage-first garbage collection
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Compilers
      1. Dynamic compilers
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Contextual software domains
      1. Operating systems
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