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A generational mostly-concurrent garbage collector

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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Pages: 143 - 154

Year of Publication: 2000

ISBN:1-58113-263-8

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Tony Printezis	Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, 17 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RZ, Scotland
David Detlefs	Sun Microsystems Laboratories, 1 Network Drive, Burlington, MA

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SIGPLAN: ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

This paper reports our experiences with a mostly-concurrent incremental garbage collector, implemented in the context of a high performance virtual machine for the Java™ programming language. The garbage collector is based on the “mostly parallel” collection algorithm of Boehm et al. and can be used as the old generation of a generational memory system. It overloads efficient write-barrier code already generated to support generational garbage collection to also identify objects that were modified during concurrent marking. These objects must be rescanned to ensure that the concurrent marking phase marks all live objects. This algorithm minimises maximum garbage collection pause times, while having only a small impact on the average garbage collection pause time and overall execution time. We support our claims with experimental results, for both a synthetic benchmark and real programs.

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