A study of memory management for web-based applications on multicore processors

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 386-396

  Inoue, Hiroshi ^a   Komatsu, Hideaki ^a   Nakatani, Toshio ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dynamic memory management; Region based memory management; Scripting language; Web based applications

Indexed keywords

WEB SERVICES; WEBSITES;

DYNAMIC MEMORY MANAGEMENT; MEMORY BANDWIDTHS; MEMORY MANAGEMENT; MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR; REGION BASED APPROACH; REGION-BASED MEMORY MANAGEMENT; SCRIPTING LANGUAGES; WEB-BASED APPLICATIONS;

COST REDUCTION;

EID: 67650828097     PISSN: 15232867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1543135.1542520     Document Type: Conference Paper

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