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A fast analysis for thread-local garbage collection with dynamic class loading

Jones, Richard E. and King, A.C. (2005) A fast analysis for thread-local garbage collection with dynamic class loading. In: Fifth IEEE International Workshop on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM'05). IEEE, pp. 129-138. ISBN 978-0-7695-2292-0. (doi:10.1109/SCAM.2005.1) (KAR id:49521)

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Abstract

Long-running, heavily multi-threaded, Java server applications make stringent demands of garbage collector (GC) performance. Synchronisation of all application threads before garbage collection is a significant bottleneck for JVMs that use native threads. We present a new static analysis and a novel GC framework designed to address this issue by allowing independent collection of thread-local heaps. In contrast to previous work, our solution safely classifies objects even in the presence of dynamic class loading, requires neither write-barriers that may do unbounded work, nor synchronisation, nor locks during thread-local collections; our analysis is sufficiently fast to permit its integration into a high-performance, production-quality virtual machine.

Item Type: Book section
DOI/Identification number: 10.1109/SCAM.2005.1
Uncontrolled keywords: Java programming language, Multiprocessing systems, Servers, Synchronization, Virtual reality, Dynamic class loading, Garbage collector (GC), Java server applications, Data reduction
Subjects: 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: Richard Jones
Date Deposited: 14 Jul 2015 15:26 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:20 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/49521 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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