Intelligent selection of application-specific garbage collectors

International Symposium on Memory Management, ISMM

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 91-102

  Singer, Jeremy ^a   Brown, Gavin ^a   Watson, Ian ^a   Cavazos, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Application specific garbage collection; Machine learning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BENCHMARKING; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; EXPERIMENTS; LEAD; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REFUSE COLLECTION; REFUSE DISPOSAL; STANDARDS; TESTING; WASTE DISPOSAL;

APPLICATION-SPECIFIC GARBAGE COLLECTORS; BENCHMARK SUITES; GARBAGE COLLECTION (GC); GENERAL (CO); INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; JAVA PROGRAMS; JAVA SOFTWARE; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; MEMORY-MANAGEMENT; NEW APPROACHES; OVERALL EXECUTION; PREDICTION MODELING; TEST PROGRAMS;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 42149103197     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1296907.1296920     Document Type: Conference Paper

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