Improving the performance of SML garbage collection using application-specific virtual memory management

  • Authors:
  • Eric Cooper;Scott Nettles;Indira Subramanian

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • LFP '92 Proceedings of the 1992 ACM conference on LISP and functional programming
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

We improved the performance of garbage collection in the standard ML of New Jersey system by using the virtual memory facilities provided by the Mach kernel. We took advantage of Mach's support for large sparse address spaces and user-defined paging servers. We decreased the elapsed time for realistic application by as much as a factor of 4.