OOPSLA '87 Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications
Computer graphics: principles and practice (2nd ed.)
Computer graphics: principles and practice (2nd ed.)
Garbage collection: algorithms for automatic dynamic memory management
Garbage collection: algorithms for automatic dynamic memory management
Garbage collecting the world: one car at a time
Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
A real-time garbage collector based on the lifetimes of objects
Communications of the ACM
A generational mostly-concurrent garbage collector
Proceedings of the 2nd international symposium on Memory management
Incremental Collection of Mature Objects
IWMM '92 Proceedings of the International Workshop on Memory Management
Uniprocessor Garbage Collection Techniques
IWMM '92 Proceedings of the International Workshop on Memory Management
Incremental Mature Garbage Collection Using the Train Algorithm
ECOOP '95 Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
Incremental Garbage Collection of a Persistent Object Store using PMOS
Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Persistent Object Systems (POS8) and Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Persistence and Java (PJW3): Advances in Persistent Object Systems
TMOS: A Transactional Garbage Collector
POS-9 Revised Papers from the 9th International Workshop on Persistent Object Systems
Garbage collection in a large LISP system
LFP '84 Proceedings of the 1984 ACM Symposium on LISP and functional programming
Generation Scavenging: A non-disruptive high performance storage reclamation algorithm
SDE 1 Proceedings of the first ACM SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN software engineering symposium on Practical software development environments
Compiling lazy functional programs for the Java Virtual Machine
Journal of Functional Programming
The GC Interface in the EVM1
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JVM'01 Proceedings of the 2001 Symposium on JavaTM Virtual Machine Research and Technology Symposium - Volume 1
GCspy: an adaptable heap visualisation framework
OOPSLA '02 Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Visualising dynamic memory allocators
Proceedings of the 5th international symposium on Memory management
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This paper presents a novel method for visualising an incremental garbage collector, based on the well-known Train algorithm, that generates concise snapshots of its state and informative graphs of its operation over time. To obtain these visualisations we used GC-spy, a generic heap visualisation framework. We show how this easy-to-use tool provided a visualisation model that was effective in both confirming our pre-existing beliefs about the collector's operation and, more interestingly, highlighting unexpected patterns in its behaviour. Based on this successful experience, we advocate the use of similar visualisation approaches to better understand and ultimately tune, profile, and improve other equally complex garbage collectors.