Clustering the heap in multi-threaded applications for improved garbage collection

GECCO 2006 - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1901-1908

  Cohen, Myra ^a   Kooi, Shiu Beng ^a   Srisa An, Witawas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Garbage collection; Heap clustering; Search based software engineering, hill climbing; Virtual machines

Indexed keywords

MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; REFUSE COLLECTION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

HEAP CLUSTERING; HILL CLIMBING; SEARCH BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; VIRTUAL MACHINES;

MULTITASKING;

EID: 33750273259     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1143997.1144314     Document Type: Conference Paper

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