Support for garbage collection at every instruction in a Java™ compiler

SIGPLAN Notices (ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages)

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 118-127

  Stichnoth, James M ^a,b   Lueh, Guei Yuan ^a   Cierniak, Michał ^a  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Inktomi Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Compilers; Garbage collection; Java

Indexed keywords

EID: 17244383523     PISSN: 03621340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/301631.301652     Document Type: Article

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