Estimating the impact of heap liveness information on space consumption in Java

International Symposium on Memory Management

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 64-75

  Shaham, Ran ^a   Kolodner, Elliot K ^a   Sagiv, Mooly ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Compilers; Garbage collection; Java; Liveness analysis; Memory management; Program analysis

Indexed keywords

INTERFACES (COMPUTER); JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; OPTIMIZATION; PROGRAM COMPILERS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); VIRTUAL REALITY;

GARBAGE COLLECTOR; JAVA VIRTUAL MACHINE; MEMORY MANAGEMENT;

STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

EID: 0242443830     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/512434.512437     Document Type: Conference Paper

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