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The useful notion of abstract data types has, almost by definition, seldom been seen to produce requirements for the functionality of underlying hardware. When these types take the form of persistent objects, there is a real need for hardware support for memory management functions. We describe an active memory which provides such support, whilst at the same time allowing inherent parallelism to be exploited for certain well-used data structures such as sets, relations and graphs. We outline the performance of the active memory, and give an example of its use via persistent-object enhancements to C++.
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Lavington, S.H., Davies, R.A.J. (1990). Active Memory for Managing Persistent Objects. In: Rosenberg, J., Keedy, J.L. (eds) Security and Persistence. Workshops in Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3178-6_10
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