Virtual machines face significant performance challenges beyond those confronted by
traditional static optimizers. First, portable program representations and dynamic language …

When you think about how far and fast computer science has progressed in recent years, it's
not hard to conclude that a seven-year old handbook may fall a little short of the kind of …

Garbage-First is a server-style garbage collector, targeted for multi-processors with large
memories, that meets a soft real-time goal with high probability, while achieving high …

This paper describes the evolution of the Jikes™ Research Virtual Machine project from an
IBM internal research project, called Jalapeño, into an open-source project. After …

This paper explores and quantifies garbage collection behavior for three whole heap
collectors and generational counterparts: copying semi-space, mark-sweep, and reference …

Now that the use of garbage collection in languages like Java is becoming widely accepted
due to the safety and software engineering benefits it provides, there is significant interest in …

With the Java language and sandboxed environments becoming more and more popular
research needs to be conducted into improving the performance of these environments …

Today, programmers work in an environment of rapid global development of large-scale
applications that have become increasingly interconnected. These drivers are the backdrop …

Object-oriented programming represents an original implementation issue due to its
philosophy of making the program behavior depend on the dynamic type of objects. This is …

Much prior work has shown that the performance enabled by garbage collection (GC)
systems is highly dependent upon the behavior of the application as well as on the available …