Presentation 2013-08-01
A Hardware Support Technique for Fast Pointer Detection in Garbage Collection
Kei IDEUE, yUKI SATOMI, Tomoaki TSUMURA, Hiroshi MATSO,
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Abstract(in English) Many mobile systems have to achieve both high performance and low memory usage, and the total performance of the wide range of platforms now can be affected by the effectiveness of Garbage Collection(GC). GC algorithms have been actively studied and improved, but they still has not reached a fundamental solution. In this paper, we focus on the point that the objects on the call stack should be traced in many GC algorithms, and propose a hardware support technique for speeding up this tracing. To trace objects, it is needed to find pointers on the call stack. Hence, we install a table for managing all pointers on the call stack. By referring this table, GC routine can detect pointers immediately. The result of the simulation experiment shows the proposal method can lead to low GC latency.
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Keyword(in English) garbage collection / hardware support
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Conference Date 2013/7/25(1days)
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Title (in English) A Hardware Support Technique for Fast Pointer Detection in Garbage Collection
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Keyword(1) garbage collection
Keyword(2) hardware support
1st Author's Name Kei IDEUE
1st Author's Affiliation Nagoya Institute of Technology()
2nd Author's Name yUKI SATOMI
2nd Author's Affiliation Nagoya Institute of Technology
3rd Author's Name Tomoaki TSUMURA
3rd Author's Affiliation Nagoya Institute of Technology
4th Author's Name Hiroshi MATSO
4th Author's Affiliation Nagoya Institute of Technology
Date 2013-08-01
Paper # CPSY2013-13
Volume (vol) vol.113
Number (no) 169
Page pp.pp.-
#Pages 6
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