September 16, 2004

An interesting set of GC papers

Courtesy, indirectly, of the VEE workshop:

http://cs.anu.edu.au/~Steve.Blackburn/pubs/abstracts.html

Looks like maybe read barriers aren't as bad as I thought they might be. May well be worth more investigation in getting infrastructure set up.

Posted by Dan at September 16, 2004 03:56 PM | TrackBack (0)
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One rather interesting paper is "The Garbage Collection Advantage: Improving Program Locality": briefly, how programs run faster with garbage collection than via manual memory management, due to taking advantage of caching effects.

Posted by: Andre Pang at September 17, 2004 04:01 AM