GCspy: An adaptable heap visualisation framework

Proceedings of the Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications, OOPSLA

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 343-358

  Printezis, Tony ^a   Jones, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Garbage collection; Java; Language implementation; Memory management; Visualisation of objects

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER); USER INTERFACES; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION;

GARBAGE COLLECTION; JAVA VIRTUAL MACHINES; MEMORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 0037771390     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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