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A study of thread-local garbage collection for multi-core systems

Mole, Matthew Robert (2015) A study of thread-local garbage collection for multi-core systems. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) thesis, University of Kent,. (KAR id:57582)

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Abstract

With multi-processor systems in widespread use, and programmers increasingly writing programs that exploit multiple processors, scalability of application performance is more of an issue. Increasing the number of processors available to an application by a factor does not necessarily boost that application's performance by that factor. More processors can actually harm performance. One cause of poor scalability is memory bandwidth becoming saturated as processors contend with each other for memory bus use. More multi-core systems have a non-uniform memory architecture and placement of threads and the data they use is important in tackling this problem. Garbage collection is a memory load and store intensive activity, and whilst well known techniques such as concurrent and parallel garbage collection aim to increase performance with multi-core systems, they do not address the memory bottleneck problem. One garbage collection technique that can address this problem is thread-local heap garbage collection. Smaller, more frequent, garbage collection cycles are performed so that intensive memory activity is distributed. This thesis evaluates a novel thread-local heap garbage collector for Java, that is designed to improve the effectiveness of this thread-independent garbage collection.

Item Type: Thesis (Doctor of Philosophy (PhD))
Thesis advisor: Jones, Richard
Uncontrolled keywords: thread local heap garbage collection java
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science)
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing
Depositing User: Users 1 not found.
Date Deposited: 29 Sep 2016 17:00 UTC
Last Modified: 09 Dec 2022 03:55 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/57582 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Mole, Matthew Robert.

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