Application-specific garbage collection

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 80, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1037-1056

  Soman, Sunil ^a   Krintz, Chandra ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive garbage collection; Application specific garbage collection; Dynamic GC selection; Java; Virtual machine

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; OPTIMIZATION; PROGRAM COMPILERS; SWITCHING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADAPTIVE GARBAGE COLLECTION; APPLICATION SPECIFIC GARBAGE COLLECTION; DYNAMIC GC SELECTION; VIRTUAL MACHINE;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 34248548632     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2006.12.566     Document Type: Article

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