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The Real-Time Specification for Java (RTSJ) introduces a memory model that includes immortal and scoped memory areas that are not subject to garbage collection latencies. Unfortunately, it is often argued that the RTSJ’s memory model is unwieldy and even insufficiently expressive for describing the memory dynamics of simple and commonly used structures and patterns. In this paper we propose a simple approach to expressing known lifetime object information using scoped memory. By developing algorithms that give the best ordering for scoped memory based on this lifetime information we evaluate the expressive power of the RTSJ within this context. We use this evaluation to propose a minimal extension to the RTSJ and explain how a previous extension we have developed complements our programming model.
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Borg, A., Wellings, A. (2004). Towards an Understanding of the Expressive Power of the RTSJ Scoped Memory Model. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z., Corsaro, A. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2004: OTM 2004 Workshops. OTM 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3292. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30470-8_48
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