Memory management for real-time Java: An efficient solution using hardware support

Real-Time Systems

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 63-87

  Higuera, Teresa ^a   Issarny, Valérie ^a   Banâtre, Michel ^b   Lesot, Jean Philippe ^b   Parain, Frédéric ^b   Cabillic, Gilbert ^b  

^a INRIA ROCQUENCOURT   (France)

^b CAMPUS DE BEAULIEU   (France)

Author keywords

Embedded; Garbage collection; Java; Memory regions; Performance; Real time; Write barriers

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; DATA STRUCTURES; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS; PROGRAM COMPILERS; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

GARBAGE COLLECTION; MEMORY MANAGEMENT; MEMORY REGIONS; REAL TIME JAVA EXPERT GROUP; WRITE BARRIERS;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 0842348189     PISSN: 09226443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:TIME.0000009306.22263.59     Document Type: Article

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