Published in 1996, Richard Jones's Garbage Collection was a milestone in the area of
automatic memory management. Its widely acclaimed successor, The Garbage Collection …

A technique is provided for reducing the number of write barriers executed in mutator code
without compromising garbage collector performance. Advantageously, a compiler …

Application domains such as multimedia, databases, and parallel computing, require
operating system services with high performance and high functionality. Existing operating …

This paper describes a method for improving the performance of a large direct-mapped
cache by reducing the number of conflict misses. Our solution consists of two components …

Thor is an object-oriented database system designed for use in a heterogeneous distributed
environment. It provides highly-reliable and highly-available persistent storage for objects …

Modern microprocessors contain small TLBs that maintain a cache of recently used
translations. A TLB's coverage is the sum of the number of bytes mapped by each entry …

This paper reports our experiences with a mostly-concurrent incremental garbage collector,
implemented in the context of a high performance virtual machine for the Java™ …

New non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies enable direct, durable storage of data in an
application's heap. Durable, randomly accessible memory facilitates the construction of …

Modern garbage collectors rely on read and write barriers imposed on heap accesses by the
mutator, to keep track of references between different regions of the garbage collected heap …

Most software-based distributed shared memory (DSM) systems rely on the operating
system's virtual memory interface to detect writes to shared data. Strategies based on virtual …