Bell: Bit-encoding online memory leak detection

International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems - ASPLOS

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 61-72

  Bond, Michael D ^a   McKinley, Kathryn S ^a  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Low overhead monitoring; Managed languages; Memory leaks; Probabilistic approaches

Indexed keywords

LOW OVERHEAD MONITORING; MEMORY LEAKS; OBJECT HEADERS; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; PROBABILITY; SECURITY OF DATA; STATISTICAL METHODS; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

ENCODING (SYMBOLS);

EID: 34547518835     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1168857.1168866     Document Type: Conference Paper

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