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Researchers have devoted decades towards improving garbage collec-tion performance. A key question is: What opportunity remains for performance improvement? Because the perceived performance dis-advantage of garbage collection is often cited as a barrier to its adoption, we propose using explicit memory management as the touchstone for evaluating garbage collection performance. This work begins by asking how well garbage collection performs currently and which areas remain for it to improve. We present oracular memory management to help answer this question by en-abling us to quantify garbage collection's performance. Our results show that while garbage collection can perform competitively, this good performance assumes the heap fits in available memory. Our work thus focuses onto this brittleness, and we show the design and implement of our bookmarking collector. While performing competi-tively when not paging, our new collector's paging performance helps make garbage collection's performance more robust.Product Identifiers
PublisherVdm Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.
ISBN-139783639002461
eBay Product ID (ePID)18049025272
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Number of Pages152 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameQuantifying and Improving the Performance of Garbage Collection
Publication Year2008
SubjectComputer Science
TypeTextbook
AuthorMatthew Hertz
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height229 mm
Item Weight213 g
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Country/Region of ManufactureGermany
Title_AuthorMatthew Hertz