A cache-pinning strategy for improving generational garbage collection

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4297 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 98-110

  Reddy, Vimal K ^a   Sawyer, Richard K ^a   Gehringer, Edward F ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CACHE PERFORMANCE; GARBAGE COLLECTION; GARBAGE COLLECTORS; MEMORY ACCESS PATTERNS; OPERATING SYSTEMS; PAGE ALLOCATION; SIMULATION RESULT; SMALLTALK; VIRTUAL MACHINES;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; REFUSE COLLECTION;

WASTE DISPOSAL;

EID: 77049126194     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11945918_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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