Garbage collecting the Internet: a survey of distributed garbage collection

  • Authors:
  • Saleh E. Abdullahi;Graem A. Ringwood

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of London, London, UK;-

  • Venue:
  • ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Internet programming languages such as Java present new challenges to garbage-collection design. The spectrum of garbage-collection schema for linked structures distributed over a network are reviewed here. Distributed garbage collectors are classified first because they evolved from single-address-space collectors. This taxonomy is used as a framework to explore distribution issues: locality of action, communication overhead and indeterministic communication latency.