An on-the-fly reference counting garbage collector for Java
OOPSLA '01 Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
A brief survey of program slicing
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
An on-the-fly reference-counting garbage collector for java
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Cell GC: using the cell synergistic processor as a garbage collection coprocessor
Proceedings of the fourth ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual execution environments
Automatic parallelization of fine-grained meta-functions on a chip multiprocessor
CGO '11 Proceedings of the 9th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization
Automatic parallelization of fine-grained metafunctions on a chip multiprocessor
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO)
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We investigate reference counting in the context of a multi-threaded architecture by exploiting two observations: (1) reference-counting can be performed by a transformed program slice of the mutator that isolates heap references, and (2) hardware trends indicate that microprocessors in the near future will be able to execute multiple concurrent threads on a single chip. We generate a reference-counting collector as a transformed program slice of an application and then execute this slice in parallel with the application as a “run-behind” thread. Preliminary measurements of collector overheads are quite encouraging, showing a 25% to 53% space overhead to transfer garbage collection to a separate thread.