The design and analysis of a quantitative simulator for dynamic memory management

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 443-453

  Lo, Chia Tien Dan ^a   Srisa An, Witawas ^a,b   Chang, J Morris ^a,c  

^a Science Building   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c Iowa State University   (United States)

Author keywords

DMM simulator; Dynamic memory management; Garbage collection; Java virtual machine; Object oriented programming; Tools

Indexed keywords

DMM SIMULATORS; DYNAMIC MEMORY MANAGEMENT; GARBAGE COLLECTION; JAVA VIRTUAL MACHINE;

ALGORITHMS; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 2942627573     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0164-1212(03)00095-5     Document Type: Article

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