Assessing the scalability of garbage collectors on many cores

Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Programming Languages and Operating Systems, PLOS 2011 - In Conjunction with the 23rd ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, SOSP 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Gidra, Lokesh ^a   Thomas, Gaël ^a   Sopena, Julien ^a   Shapiro, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SERVERS; CONCURRENT GARBAGE COLLECTORS; CRITICAL SCALABILITY; EXECUTION TIME; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; GARBAGE COLLECTION; GARBAGE COLLECTORS; JAVA VIRTUAL MACHINES; MANY CORE; MULTI CORE; MULTIPROCESSOR MACHINES; RUNTIME ENVIRONMENTS;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MULTICORE PROGRAMMING; REFUSE COLLECTION; SCALABILITY; WASTE DISPOSAL;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING;

EID: 80955126851     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2039239.2039249     Document Type: Conference Paper

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