Date: December 2, 1993
Speaker: Scott Nettles
Concurrent Compacting Garbage Collection of a Persistent Heap
Abstract:
We have designed and implemented the first working concurrent copying garbage collector for a persistent heap. The talk focuses on three key points. First is the importance of concurrent garbage collection in the setting of a general purpose persistence system. Second is why our approach is superior to previous unimplemented designs for such a collector. Third is how we achieve our key simplification, the use of a from-space invariant, by using a new garbage collection technique, replicating collection. The talk will also briefly present some details of the implementation and performance evaluation.
SDI / LCS Seminar Questions?
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