MicroPhase: An approach to proactively invoking garbage collection for improved performance

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 77-96

  Xian, Feng ^a   Srisa an, Witawas ^a   Jiang, Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimentation; Languages; Performance

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTATION; GARBAGE COLLECTION; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HOT SPOT; LANGUAGES; MICRO-PHASE; PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE SHORTCOMING; SUN MICROSYSTEMS; VIRTUAL MACHINES;

EXPERIMENTS; LINGUISTICS; REFUSE COLLECTION;

WASTE DISPOSAL;

EID: 67650079958     PISSN: 15232867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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