Older-First garbage collection in practice: Evaluation in a Java virtual machine

Proceedings of the 2002 Workshop on Memory System Performance, MSP 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 25-36

  Stefanović, Darko ^a   Hertz, Matthew ^b   Blackburn, Stephen M ^c   McKinley, Kathryn S ^d   Moss, J Eliot B ^b  

^a University of New Mexico   (United States)

^b Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REFUSE COLLECTION; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; VIRTUAL MACHINE;

COPYING GARBAGE COLLECTOR; GARBAGE COLLECTION; GARBAGE COLLECTION ALGORITHM; GENERATIONAL COLLECTOR; JAVA VIRTUAL MACHINES; PROGRAM PERFORMANCE;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 33846640854     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/773146.773042     Document Type: Conference Paper

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