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Complementary garbage collector

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Memory Management (IWMM 1995)

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This paper describes the design and evaluation of a Complementary Garbage Collector that is a fundamental algorithm for parallel and incremental garbage collection. Our algorithm is a combination of two types of fundamental algorithms, incremental update and snapshot-at-beginning, which are complementary to each other. The algorithm has the advantages of both types: greater efficiency of garbage collection and ease of consistent implementation. This algorithm can be substituted for the snapshot-at-beginning algorithm widely used in several types of parallel and incremental garbage collectors. Measurements of this algorithm in a parallel and an incremental mark-sweep GC indicate that it improves the efficiency of the collection making it equivalent to a stop-and-collect garbage collector. Consequently, the execution time of the list processing is shortened and the range of non-stop processing is extended.

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  1. Kanagawa University, 259-12, Hiratsuka, Japan

    Shogo Matsui

  2. Keio University, 223, Yokohama, Japan

    Yoshio Tanaka, Atsushi Maeda & Masakazu Nakanishi

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  1. Shogo Matsui
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Matsui, S., Tanaka, Y., Maeda, A., Nakanishi, M. (1995). Complementary garbage collector. In: Baler, H.G. (eds) Memory Management. IWMM 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 986. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60368-9_23

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