Alan Demers, Mark Weiser, Barry Hayes, Hans Boehm, Daniel G. Bobrow, and Scott Shenker. Combining generational and conservative garbage collection: Framework and implementations. In Conference Record of the Seventeenth Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, January 1990. ACM Press, pages 261-269.  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles   Check

....extension is based, and also favored the use of the virtual memory technique for reference update tracking, since this technique required no modification of the mutator code. We should also note that their system was also generational, albeit in a rather di#erent manner than ours, as described in [9]. This generational mark sweep system gets some of the benefits of traditional generational systems with physically segregated generations. However, we believe that the latter are more straightforward and probably more e#cient. In particular, the copying young generation used in the default ....

Alan Demers, Mark Weiser, Barry Hayes, Hans Boehm, Daniel Bobrow, and Scott Shenker. Combining generational and conservative garbage collection: Framework and implementations. In Conference Record of the Seventeenth Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, pages 261--269. ACM SIGACT and SIGPLAN, ACM Press, 1990.

....to the old generation, the object is moved from the young part of the heap to the old part of the heap. On the y garbage collectors do not move objects; the cost of moving objects while running concurrently with the program threads is too high. Thus, we have to do without it. Demers, et al. [6] presented a generational collector that does not move objects. Their motivation was to adapt generations for conservative garbage collection. Here, we build on their work to design a generational collector for the DLG on the y garbage collector [11, 10] We have implemented this generational ....

....does not move objects. We provide the details in Section 8.5.3. 1.3 Techniques used and organization We start with the state of the art DLG on the y collector [11, 10] which we brie y review in Section 2. We then construct our generational collector similar to the work of Demers, et al. [6], presenting it in Section 3. We augment DLG to work better with generations, both by utilizing an additional color in Section 4 and also by using a color toggle trick to reduce synchronization in Section 5. A similar trick was previously used in [21, 17, 7, 22, 19] Our rst promotion policy is ....

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Alan Demers, Mark Weiser, Barry Hayes, Hans Boehm, Daniel G. Bobrow, and Scott Shenker. Combining generational and conservative garbage collection: Framework and implementations. In Conference Record of the Seventeenth Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, January 1990. ACM Press, pages 261-269.

....are white. New objects created by the mutator while the collection is taking place, are allocated in the to space and are colored black. Write Barrier A write barrier detects when the mutator tries to write a pointer into a black object; when that happens, the write is trapped or recorded [7, 20, 35, 40, 115, 131]. We describe here an interesting copy collector using a write barrier; it is called replication based GC [91, 94] The basic idea is the following. While the collector moves objects to to space, the mutator continues to access the from space versions of objects, rather than the replicas in ....

....idea is to separate the objects in (at least) two groups, those objects that are reachable only for a short length of time belong to the first group, the others belong to the second group, and to collect the first group more often. Both mark and sweep and copy algorithms can be made generational [35]; in this section, we will focus on the copy algorithm. Objects are segregated into multiple partitions by age. Each partition is called a generation. Younger generations are collected more often than older generations. The age of an object is approximated by the number of collections it has ....

Alan Demers, Mark Weiser, Barry Hayes, Daniel Bobrow, and Scott Shenker. Combining generational and conservative garbage collection: Framework and implementations. In Conference Record of the Seventeenth Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, pages 261--269, San Francisco, California, January 1990. ACM Press.

....the sweep reaches the target block. Then the final address of the block can be calculated and the chained locations can be updated. Variations of these algorithms are generational collectors that investigate younger objects more often than older ones (since they are more likely to be reclaimed) [3]. Incremental onthe fly collectors avoid long garbage collection phases by collecting unused memory constantly during (respectively concurrently with) the allocating program [5, 4] Conservative collectors operate in contexts where references cannot be distinguished uniquely from plain integers ....

Alan Demers, Mark Weiser, Barry Hayes, Hans Boehm, Daniel Bobrow, and Scott Shenker. Combining Generational and Conservative Garbage Collection: Framework and Implementations. In Seventeenth Annual ACM Symposium onn Principles of Programming Languages, pages 261--269, San Francisco, California, January 17--19, 1990. ACM Press, New York.

....message queues are empty, so the overhead of the check occurs only when there is no other work to do. The resulting GC algorithm is an almost entirely concurrent twogeneration algorithm. Because moving objects concurrently is difficult [14] we focused on non copying generational collection [7][12]. The application must stop for three short pauses during garbage collection, as is explained later. 4.1 Heap layout We organize the heap in a manner similar to the big bag ofpages organization used in the Boehm Weiser conservative collector [6] Heap space is allocated in chunks, and each ....

....and 14 of the tenured blocks are free. In addition, chunks are detenured when they become mostly free. In order to reclaim otherwise wasted space, blocks are de tenured when no more than 25 full. Demers et al. describe a similar solution for their noncopying conservative generational collectors [12]. This mixes oldgeneration objects into the young generation. Sweeping the young generation becomes slightly less efficient, because old objects must be explicitly skipped over. However, in practice less than 2 of objects in the young generation are old generation objects. The GC algorithm uses ....

Alan Demers, Mark Weiser, Barry Hayes, Hans Boehm, Daniel Bobrow, Scott Shenker, "Combining Generational and Conservative Garbage Collection: Framework and Implementations," 17 th Symp. on Principles of Programming Languages, pp. 261-269, Jan. 1990.

....of the true root set, i.e. ambiguous roots, so it cannot relocate an object because an integer value may happen to correspond to the address of a valid object. Conservative pointer finding is used in many conservative collectors with various garbage reclamation algorithms [ Boehm and Weiser 1988; Demers et al. 1990; Boehm et al. 1991 ] However, these collectors do not satisfy our requirements because they cannot compact the heap because of the constraint of conservative pointer finding. 4.2.2 Partially Conservative Collector Mostly copying collector [ Bartlett 1988 ] is a compacting partially ....

A. Demers, M. Weiser, B. Hayes, H. Boehm, D. Bobrow, and S. Shenker: "Combining Generational and Conservative Garbage Collection: Framework and Implementations," in Conference Record of the Seventeenth Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, pp. 261--269, January 1990.

....to the old generation, the object is moved from the young part of the heap to the old part of the heap. On the y garbage collectors do not move objects; the cost of moving objects while running concurrently with the program threads is too high. Thus, we have to do without it. Demers, et al. [6] presented a generational collector that does not move objects. Their motivation was to adapt generations for conservative garbage collection. Here, we build on their work to design a generational collector for the DLG on the y garbage collector [11, 10] We have implemented this generational ....

....does not move objects. We provide the details in the full paper [12] 1.3 Techniques used and organization We start with the state of the art DLG on the y collector [11, 10] which we brie y review in Section 2. We then construct our generational collector similar to the work of Demers, et al. [6], presenting it in Section 3. We augment DLG to work better with generations, both by utilizing an additional color in Section 4 and also by using a color toggle trick to reduce synchronization in Section 5. A similar trick was previously used in [21, 17, 7, 22, 19] Our rst promotion policy is ....

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Alan Demers, Mark Weiser, Barry Hayes, Hans Boehm, Daniel G. Bobrow, and Scott Shenker. Combining generational and conservative garbage collection: Framework and implementations. In Conference Record of the Seventeenth Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, January 1990. ACM Press, pages 261-269.

....published attempts at formalizing garbage collection. Even The Definition of Standard ML [8] a formal semantics of SML contains the statement There are no rules concerning disposal of inaccessible addresses ( garbage collection ) The notable exception to this lack is the work by Demmers et al. [2]. Their work differs from mine in several important ways. First, they are concerned with characterizing what data is preserved by a garbage collector (notably conservative and or generational collectors) rather than capturing the details of a particular algorithm. In fact, their framework should ....

A. Demers, M. Weiser, B. Hayes, H. Boehm, D. Bobrow, , and S. Shenker. Combining generational and conservative garbage collection: Framework and implementations. In 17th Annual ACM Symp. on Principles of Programming Languages, pages 261--269, January 1990.

....used in Symbolics machines [Moon, 1984] and the Tektronix Smalltalk collector. All three commercial Smalltalk systems, DigiTalk, Tektronix and ParcPlace, adopted generation scavengers [Ungar and Jackson, 1988] The New Jersey SML compiler [Wilson, 1992a] also includes a generation collector. Demers et al. [1990] have investigated a generation scheme combined with a mark scan garbage collector for use with Scheme, Mesa and C intermixed in one virtual memory. Before Demers et al. [1990] many believed that only scavenging collectors could be made generational. Wilson, Lam and Moher [1990] show, typically, ....

....scavengers [Ungar and Jackson, 1988] The New Jersey SML compiler [Wilson, 1992a] also includes a generation collector. Demers et al. [1990] have investigated a generation scheme combined with a mark scan garbage collector for use with Scheme, Mesa and C intermixed in one virtual memory. Before Demers et al. [1990], many believed that only scavenging collectors could be made generational. Wilson, Lam and Moher [1990] show, typically, that generation scavengers have poor locality of reference but careful attention to memory hierarchy issues greatly improves performance. They attributed the small success ....

Demers A, Weiser M, Hayes B, Boehm H, Bobrow D and Shenker S (1990) Combining generational and conservative garbage collection: framework and implementations, in ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, 261-269.

....mobile and non mobile computers 1 . From the software point of view, many implementation techniques for user application using lowlevel hardware mechanisms have been proposed recently. For example, many have researched the use of virtual memory protection traps for garbage collection [Appel 89, Demers et al. 90, Boehm et al. 91, Hosking and Moss 93] Existing OSs cannot support such needs, because they provide high abstraction of the underlying hardware only. Although there have been some proposals for the virtual memory primitives that an operating systems should provide[Appel and Li 91] it cannot be ....

Alan Demers, Mark Weiser, Barry Hayes, Hans Boehm, Daniel Bobrow, and Scott Shenker. Combining Generational and Conservative Garbage Collection: Framework and Implementations. In Proceedings of the 17th Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, pp. 261--269. ACM, 1990.

....are typical on personal computers, such as the MacIntosh. Copying collectors that excel for large amounts of accessible data may not do so for smaller amounts. Long lived data is data that survives many collections; researchers have long recognized the importance of handling such data efficiently [20, 21, 22]. For the Icon test suite, 30 50 of the allocated data remains accessible to the end of execution occupying space that cannot be reclaimed. The existing collector does not move data unnecessarily, but a non generational copying collector will move such data at each collection. The existing ....

Alan Demers, Mark Weiser, Barry Hayes, Hans-Juergen Boehm, Daniel G. Bobrow, and Scott Shenker. Combining generational and conservative garbage collection: Framework and implementations. In Conference Record of the ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, pages 261--269, San Francisco, January 1990.

....and by giving a full treatment of tag free collection in the context of a polymorphic language. The literature on garbage collection in sequential programming languages contains few papers that attempt to provide a compact characterization of algorithms or correctness proofs. Demers et al. [19] give a model of memory parameterized by an abstract notion of a points to relation. As a result, they can characterize reachability based algorithms including mark sweep, copying, generational, conservative, and other sophisticated forms of garbage collection. However, their model is ....

A. Demers, M. Weiser, B. Hayes, H. Boehm, D. Bobrow, and S. Shenker. Combining generational and conservative garbage collection: Framework and implementations. In Seventeenth ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, pages 261--269, San Francisco, January 1990.

....results in smaller program heaps when such tenured garbage exists, even when the additional space overhead of maintaining the DTB is taken into account. 2 Related Work Generational algorithms [14, 15, 16] have proven successful at reducing the pause times and page fault rate of garbage collection [4, 6, 16]. Our work is based upon a formalization developed by Demers et al. [6] Their generational Collector II used a threatening boundary to divide memory into a threatened space for new objects, and an immune space for old objects, which were collected less frequently. To compare against ....

....the additional space overhead of maintaining the DTB is taken into account. 2 Related Work Generational algorithms [14, 15, 16] have proven successful at reducing the pause times and page fault rate of garbage collection [4, 6, 16] Our work is based upon a formalization developed by Demers et al. [6]. Their generational Collector II used a threatening boundary to divide memory into a threatened space for new objects, and an immune space for old objects, which were collected less frequently. To compare against non generational algorithms, their collector modeled only classic generational ....

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Alan Demers, Mark Weiser, Barry Hayes, Hans Boehm, Daniel Bobrow, and Scott Shenker. Combining generational and conservative garbage collection: Framework and implementations. In Conference Record of the Seventeenth ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, pages 261--269, January 1990.

....collectors used in Symbolics machines [Moon, 1984] and the Tektronix Smalltalk collector. All three commercial Smalltalk systems, DigiTalk, Tektronix and PARC, adopted generation scavengers [Ungar and Jackson, 1988] The New Jersey SML compiler [Wilson, 1992a] also includes a generation collector. Demers et al. [1990] have investigated a generation scheme combined with a markand sweep garbage collector for use with Scheme, Mesa and C intermixed in one virtual memory. Before Demers et al. [1990] many believed that only copying collectors could be made generational. Wilson, Lam and Moher [1990] show that, ....

....[Ungar and Jackson, 1988] The New Jersey SML compiler [Wilson, 1992a] also includes a generation collector. Demers et al. [1990] have investigated a generation scheme combined with a markand sweep garbage collector for use with Scheme, Mesa and C intermixed in one virtual memory. Before Demers et al. [1990], many believed that only copying collectors could be made generational. Wilson, Lam and Moher [1990] show that, typically, generation scavengers have poor locality of reference, but careful attention to memory hierarchy issues greatly improves performance. They attributed the small success ....

Demers A, Weiser M, Hayes B, Boehm H, Bobrow D and Shenker S: Combining generational and conservative garbage collection: framework and implementations, in ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, 261-269.

....pointer information to move some objects are both possible and often used [3, 13] It is possible to construct conservative garbage collectors that utilize many of the same performance improvement techniques as conventional collectors. Generational conservative collectors have been constructed[5, 12] as have concurrent collectors that greatly reduce client pause times[8] Conservative collectors have been used successfully, even with fairly large conventional C programs [9, 18, 25] 1 Such collectors have also been used as a debugging tool for programs that explicitly deallocate storage[9, ....

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