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 …

Disposal of dead actors in actor-model languages is as important as disposal of
unreachable objects in object-oriented languages. In current practice, programmers are …

Abstract Systems that store objects at a large number of sites require faulttolerant and timely
garbage collection. A popular technique is to trace each site independently using inter-site …

We have developed a new programming language, called Pony, that allows the user to
easily write fast, safe, parallel programs. The focus of this work is using a powerful and novel …

Reference counting (RC) is one of the two fundamental approaches to garbage collection. It
has the desirable characteristics of low memory overhead and short pause times, which are …

This paper presents a new algorithm for distributed garbage collection and outlines its
implementation within the Network Objects system. The algorithm is based on a reference …

This paper presents an algorithm for distributed garbage collection and outlines its
implementation within the Network Objects system. The algorithm is based on a reference …

We propose Pony-ORCA, a fully concurrent protocol for garbage collection in the actor
paradigm. It allows actors to perform garbage collection concurrently with any number of …

The Java RMI collector is arguably the most widely used distributed garbage collector. Its
distributed reference listing algorithm was introduced by Birrell et al. in the context of …