Hosting an object heap on manycore hardware: An exploration

Proceedings of the 5th Dynamic Languages Symposium, DLS '09, Co-located with the 24th Annual ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications, OOPSLA 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 99-110

  Ungar, David ^a   Adams, Sam S ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cache performance; Manycore; Object heap; Object table; Smalltalk; Squeak; Virtual machine

Indexed keywords

CACHE PERFORMANCE; MANY-CORE; OBJECT HEAP; OBJECT TABLE; SMALLTALK; SQUEAK; VIRTUAL MACHINES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; DESIGN; DYNAMIC LIGHT SCATTERING; LINGUISTICS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 77956331405     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1640134.1640149     Document Type: Conference Paper

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