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 multidimensional database is a data repository that supports the efficient execution of
complex business decision queries. Query response can be significantly improved by …

Internet programming languages such as Java present new challenges to garbage-
collection design. The spectrum of garbage-collection schema for linked structures …

Automatic storage reclamation via reference counting has important advantages, but has
always suffered from a major weakness due to its inability to reclaim cyclic data structures …

The deployment of Java as a concurrent programming language has created a critical need
for high-performance, concurrent, and incremental multiprocessor garbage collection. We …

this paper is much higher than the original one for cyclic reference counting with local mark-
scan. More shared cells will now be claimed directly, without any need for mark-scan. The …

Tracing and reference counting are uniformly viewed as being fundamentally different
approaches to garbage collection that possess very distinct performance properties. We …

Reference counting and tracing are the two fundamental approaches that have underpinned
garbage collection since 1960. However, despite some compelling advantages, reference …

A reference-counting garbage collector cannot reclaim unreachable cyclic structures of
objects. Therefore, reference-counting collectors either use a backup tracing collector …

Many algorithms for storage reclamatiol~ in loosely-coupled systems have been based on
ma. rk-sca. n garbage collection. This is an expensive process for distributed systems …