Tuning Garbage Collection for Reducing Memory System Energy in an Embedded Java Environment

ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 27-55

  Chen, G ^a   Shetty, R ^a   Kandemir, M ^a   Vijaykrishnan, N ^a   Irwin, M J ^a   Wolczko, M ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SUN MICROSYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Design; Garbage collector; Java Virtual Machine (JVM); K Virtual Machine (KVM); low power computing; Measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 14244256378     PISSN: 15399087     EISSN: 15583465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/581888.581892     Document Type: Article

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