Re: Garbage Collection to IMPROVE speed

hays@ssd.intel.com (Kirk Hays)
Wed, 17 Jun 1992 23:38:34 GMT

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From: hays@ssd.intel.com (Kirk Hays)
Keywords: storage, bibliography
Organization: Intel Supercomputer Systems Division
References: 92-06-067
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1992 23:38:34 GMT

mark@premenos.sf.ca.us (Mark Grand) writes:
|> Today I attended a talk given by Andrew Appel on garbage collection where
|> he suggested that use of a garbage collector could make a program faster
|> by arranging data in such a way as to improve locality of reference. ...


Some of the papers I've seen on generational garbage collecting address
this aspect - unfortunately, I've just moved my office, and my library is
a mess.


You might try:


Stamos, J. W. "Static grouping of small objects to enhance performance of
a paged virtual memory" _ACM Trans. Comput. Syst. 2,3 (May 1984), 155-180


Stamos, J.W. ""A large object-oriented virtual memory: Grouping,
measurements, and performance." Tech. Rep. SCG-82-2, Xerox, PARC, Palo
Alto, CA, May 1982


Zorn, B.G. "Comparative performance evaluation of garbage collection
algorithms." Ph.D. dissertation, Tech. Rep. UCB/CSD 89/544, Univ. of
Calif. at Berkeley, Mar. 1989


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