In or out?: putting write barriers in their place

Date

2002

Authors

Blackburn, Stephen
McKinley, Kathryn

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Association for Computing Machinery Inc (ACM)

Abstract

In many garbage collected systems, the mutator performs a write barrier for every pointer update. Using generational garbage collectors, we study in depth three code placement options for remembered-set write barriers: inlined, out-of-line, and partially

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Keywords: Data storage equipment; Database systems; Optimization; Performance; Program compilers; Copying collection; Garbage collected systems; Write barrier code; Java programming language Copying collection; Generational collection; Java; Write barriers

Citation

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Book chapter

Book Title

Proceedings of the 3rd international symposium on memory management

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2037-12-31