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Cyclic Reference Counting With Lazy Mark-Scan

Lins, Rafael D. (1992) Cyclic Reference Counting With Lazy Mark-Scan. Information Processing Letters, 44 (4). pp. 215-220. ISSN 0020-0190. (doi:10.1016/0020-0190(92)90088-D) (KAR id:22347)

Abstract

this paper is much higher than the original one for cyclic reference counting with local mark-scan. More shared cells will now be claimed directly, without any need for mark-scan. The deletion of the last pointer to a shared cell will recycle it immediately, regardless of whether there is a reference to it on the queue. The queue will be left basically with pointers to cycles and pointers to green cells in the free-list or recycled. In this case again, our algorithm performs far better than the original one. In the best case, only one local mark-scan will be performed per cycle, instead of as many as the number of external references to a cycle, as before.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1016/0020-0190(92)90088-D
Uncontrolled keywords: Compilers; garbage collection; functional programming
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science)
Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming,
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing
Depositing User: M. Nasiriavanaki
Date Deposited: 29 Aug 2009 18:17 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:00 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/22347 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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