Garbage collection without paging

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 143-153

  Hertz, Matthew ^a   Feng, Yi ^a   Berger, Emery D ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts Amherst   (United States)

Author keywords

Bookmarking collection; Garbage collection; Generational collection; Memory pressure; Paging; Virtual memory

Indexed keywords

BOOKMARKING COLLECTION; GARBAGE COLLECTION; GENERATIONAL COLLECTION; MEMORY PRESSURE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); VIRTUAL STORAGE;

STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

EID: 33745243793     PISSN: 03621340     EISSN: 03621340     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1064978.1065028     Document Type: Article

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