Early storage reclamation in a tracing garbage collector

Authors:
Timothy Harris
Affiliations:
Citrix Systems (Cambridge) Ltd, Poseidon House, Castle Park, Cambridge, UK, CB3 0RD.
Venue:
ACM SIGPLAN Notices
Year:
1999

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Abstract

This article presents a novel technique for allowing the early recovery of storage space occupied by garbage data. The idea is similar to that of generational garbage collection, except that heap is partitioned based on a static analysis of data type definitions rather than on the approximate age of allocated objects. A prototype implementation is presented, along with initial results and ideas for future work.