Abstract:In this paper two simple improvements over traditional mark-sweep collector are proposed. The core idea is placing small objects of the same type in buckets. The buckets are organised in such way to eliminate the internal fragmentation, sweeping, and freeing inside them. The measured improvement of garbage collection time over traditional mark-sweep is 19%. Another proposed improvement is more general and is applicable to other garbage collection algorithms as well. It uses heuristics to control the heap growt… Show more
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