Segment Order Preserving and Generational Garbage Collection for Prolog

  • Authors:
  • Ruben Vandeginste;Konstantinos F. Sagonas;Bart Demoen

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • PADL '02 Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We treat two important issues in heap garbage collection for WAM-based Prolog systems. First we describe a new method for preserving the order of heap segments in a copying garbage collector. Second, we deal with methods for (multi-)generational garbage collection; in particular we show the importance of precise maintenance of generation lines and propose different and novel ways for its implementation. All the methods are experimentally evaluated.