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 …

C4, the Continuously Concurrent Compacting Collector, an updated generational form of the
Pauseless GC Algorithm [7], is introduced and described, along with details of its …

Large-scale multicore architectures create new challenges for garbage collectors (GCs). In
particular, throughput-oriented stop-the-world algorithms demonstrate good performance …

For non-blocking data-structures, only memory reclamation with pointer-based techniques
can maintain non-blocking progress, but there can be high overhead associated to these …

Lock-free data structures achieve high responsiveness, aid scalability, and avoid deadlocks
and livelocks. But providing memory management support for such data structures without …

Developers who set a breakpoint a few statements too late or who are trying to diagnose a
subtle bug from a single core dump often wish for a time-traveling debugger. The ability to …

Safe lock-free memory reclamation is a difficult problem. Existing solutions follow three basic
methods: epoch based reclamation, hazard pointers, and optimistic reclamation. Epoch …

Lock-free data-structures are widely employed in practice, yet designing lock-free memory
reclamation for them is notoriously difficult. In particular, all known lock-free reclamation …

Memory-management support for lock-free data structures is well known to be a tough
problem. Recent work has successfully reduced the overhead of such schemes. However …

US PATENT DOCUMENTS stored in the first available location in the flash memory (eg a
block) providing a best fit for the data records. Where the data records are updates, the …