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....is 34 faster than the radix 2 version. More significantly, prefetching improves the performance of mixed by 10 . We made a change to our garbage collector to reduce the occurrence of conflict misses in two of the programs. Vortex uses the UMass Garbage Collector toolkit for memory management [14]. The generational collector allocates memory in fixed sized 64KB blocks. Each generation may contain multiple blocks. Our collector contains a large object space for objects larger than 512 bytes. The initial large object space implementation allocated very large arrays in new blocks aligned on a ....

R. L. Hudson, J. E. B. Moss, A. Diwan, and C. F. Weight. A language-independent garbage collector toolkit. Technical Report Technical Report 91-47, University of Massachusetts, Dept. of Computer Science, Sept. 1991.

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Richard L. Hudson, J. Eliot B. Moss, Amer Diwan, and Christopher F. Weight. A language-independent garbage collector toolkit. Technical Report COINS 91-47, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Department of Computer andInfPYW38%P Science, September 1991. . Richard Jones andRafUU Lins. Garbage Collection: Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management. Wiley, July 1996.

.... mtrt jbb euler montecarlo raytracer 5 10 15 20 space saving (as of original heap space) Prolific Arrays Reduction in Space Occupied by Instances of Prolific Scalar Objects tification of large objects can be an absolute measure (e.g. more than 1024 bytes [46] or 256 bytes [27]) or a relative one (i.e. identify the object type whose instances occupy substantial space [25] Many recent generation collection implementations use the LOS for storing large objects [23, 2] The cost of write barriers is also significant, especially for pointerintensive applications [42] ....

R. Hudson, J. E. B. Moss, A. Diwan, and C. Weight. A language-independent garbage collector toolkit. Technical Report TR91-47, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, September 1991.

....It concentrates on the language interface to the garbage collector, and does not describe the details of the garbage collection algorithm. It should be read in conjunction with other reports which provide the motivation for and evaluation of the toolkit approach and the collector implementation ([3], 1] 2 Packaging 2.1 Code provided The toolkit source files are the following: fblocks, cards, gc, gens, image, los, pages, policy, protect, remsets, splay, ssb, stepsg.fh, cg, oosdefs.h, gc lang.h. These files, compressed and tarred, are available by anonymous ftp as file . in directory ....

....implementor The plan file, which describes the memory outline for a particular language (or even a particular application) 3 Language garbage collector interface (Here we describe in broad terms the assumptions of the interface. 3. 1 The toolkit concept For a detailed description, see [3]. 3.1.1 Language runtime components We distinguish three components of a running program for purposes of garbage collection, draw strict boundaries between them and define the interfaces. The first component is the garbage collector, charged with object and free space management. The second ....

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R. L. Hudson, J. E. B. Moss, A. Diwan, and C. F. Weight. A language-independent garbage collector toolkit. COINS Technical Report 91-47, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, Sept. 1991. Submitted for publication.

....on pages for disk IO. Pages are of a xed size and typically rather large, i.e. 32 kB, in order to minimize disk seeking. By choosing page sizes to be a power of two and aligning the database suitably, it is possible to translate cell addresses to page numbers with simple shift right instructions [11, 22]. Mature generations consist in a varying number of often non adjacent pages. The database image consists of the root block, the rst generation, possibly thousands of mature generations, and of free pages not belonging to a mature generation. Since dynamic memory allocation takes place in the ....

R. L. Hudson, J. E. B. Moss, A. Diwan, and C. F. Weight. A language-independent garbage collector toolkit. Technical Report COINS 91-47, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Sept. 1991.

.... practical implementations and studies of predictive and adaptive management of generations have reported good performance [Caudill and Wirfs Brock, 1986; Courts, 1988; Shaw, 1988; Sobalvarro, 1988; Ungar and Jackson, 1988; Wilson, 1989; Wilson and Moher, 1989; Appel, 1989b; Wilson et al. 1991; Hudson et al. 1991; Stefanovic, 1993b; Stefanovic and Moss, 1994; Diwan et al. 1995; Barrett and Zorn, 1995] The performance of a collector is affected by a number of factors: the number of generations in the system; the promotion policy, or how long an object must remain in one generation before it is advanced ....

....particular block to another by manipulating oldest block youngest block U U U U U C C Collection 1 Collection 2 Figure 3.14. Filling preceding block to avoid fragmentation. efficient indexing data structures. The implementation of large object space can be adapted from the one in the GC Toolkit [Hudson et al. 1991]. The handling of objects in large object space is more expensive than of those in ordinary blocks [Hicks et al. 1998] an examination of the size distributions of objects (Section 4.2.3) shows, however, that large objects are a rare occurrence for our benchmarks. 3.2.2 Remembered sets The ....

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Richard L. Hudson, J. Eliot B. Moss, Amer Diwan, and Christopher F. Weight. A language-independent garbage collector toolkit. COINS Technical Report 91-47, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, September 1991.

....As with the Nettles et al. collector, this provides low garbage collection latency, but it also has worse overall performance than the old collector and required compiler modifications. Moss et al. have developed a language independent garbage collector toolkit that has been used for SML NJ [HMDW91, Ste91]. We have not seen any published figures as to the performance of this collector when used for Standard ML, so we cannot compare them in this respect. Our store list is much like their sequential store buffer; the main difference is that they use a guard page to detect overflow, which presumably ....

....for SML NJ that provides better overall performance, reduced GC latency, and requires less physical memory than the old collector. There remain a number of areas for further work: ffl We are currently working on a scheme to support non contiguous arenas (much the way that the GC toolkit does [HMDW91]) This will allow us more flexibility in sizing generations, and determining when to collect. It should also result in lower virtual memory requirements. We hope to report on this in the final version of the paper. ffl Older generations tend to yield little free space when collected. For this ....

Hudson, R. L., J. E. B. Moss, A. Diwan, and C. F. Weight. A language-independent garbage collector toolkit. Technical Report 91-47, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, September 1991. A High-performance Garbage Collector for Standard ML 18

....garbage collectors (GCs) handle large objects specially by managing them in a separate non copycollected space. This large object space (LOS) approach allows the costs associated with copying the large objects to be eliminated. This strategy has been incorporated into a number of implementations [2, 8, 6, 7], some of which do not collect the large objects at all, and some of which collect them using either mark and sweep or treadmill [1] collection. One implementation only considers treating large objects that do not contain pointers differently, since not having to traverse the objects to locate ....

....were using simulation, there was no LOS collector. They found the use of a LOS to be very effective, resulting in 3 to 6 times smaller collection pause times, as well large reductions of tenured garbage. They report that a LOS was added to ParcPlace Smalltalk, but give no details. Hudson et al. [6] discuss the LOS implementation in the UMass GC toolkit. Hosking et al. 5] also discuss this LOS very briefly. Because of the design of their system, objects larger than a block cannot be kept in their regular heap and must be allocated in the LOS. This implies that pointercontaining objects ....

R. L. Hudson, J. E. B. Moss, A. Diwan, and C. F. Weight. A Language-Independent Garbage Collector Toolkit. Technical Report COINS 91-47, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Sept. 1991.

....It concentrates on the language interface to the garbage collector, and does not describe the details of the garbage collection algorithm. It should be read in conjunction with other reports which provide the motivation for and evaluation of the toolkit approach and the collector implementation ([HMDW91], HMS92] 2 Packaging 2.1 Code provided The toolkit source files are the following: fblocks, cards, gc, gens, image, los, nurseries, pages, plan, protect, remsets, splay, ssb, stepsg.fh, cg, boolean.h, convert.h, lang.h, minmax.h. These files, compressed and tarred, are available by anonymous ....

....implementor The plan file, which describes the memory outline for a particular language (or even a particular application) 3 Language garbage collector interface (Here we describe in broad terms the assumptions of the interface. 3. 1 The toolkit concept For a detailed description, see [HMDW91]. 3.1.1 Language runtime components We distinguish three components of a running program for purposes of garbage collection, draw strict boundaries between them and define the interfaces. The first component is the garbage collector, charged with object and free space management. The second ....

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Richard L. Hudson, J. Eliot B. Moss, Amer Diwan, and Christopher F. Weight. A language-independent garbage collector toolkit. Coins Technical Report 91-47, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, September 1991.

....Many copying garbage collectors handle large objects specially by managing them in a separate non copy collected space. The idea is that by doing so, costs associated with copying the large objects can be eliminated. This strategy has been incorporated into a number of implementations [2, 7, 5, 6], some of which do not collect the large objects at all, and some of which collect them using markand sweep or treadmill collection. One implementation only considers treating large objects that do not contain pointers differently, since not having to traverse the objects to locate their ....

....they were using simulation, there was no LOS collector. They found the use of a LOS to be very effective, resulting in pause times of 3 to 6 times smaller, as well large reductionss of tenured garbage. They report that a LOS was added to ParcPlace Smalltalk, but give no details. Hudson et al. [5] discuss the LOS implementation in the GC toolkit. Hosking et al. 4] also discuss this LOS very briefly. Because of the design of their system, objects larger than a block can not be kept in their regular heap and must be allocated in the LOS. This implies that pointer containing objects are ....

R. L. Hudson, J. E. B. Moss, A. Diwan, and C. F. Weight. A Language-Independent Garbage Collector Toolkit. Technical Report COINS 91-47, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Sept. 1991.

....to the GNU gcc 2.x compiler [21] performs efficient method inlining and generates optimized native machine code on a wide range of architectures. 3 A future version of the GNU C compiler will employ some support for a generation scavenging garbage collector, based on work by Moss et al. [11]. controlled construction and destruction of Future T objects is adopted. This scheme is based on the ability to restrict Future T objects so that it is not possible to obtain a pointer to a future object. Furthermore, each time a Future T object is constructed or destructed (either ....

Richard L. Hudson, J. Eliot B. Moss, Amer Diwan, and Christopher F. Weight. A language independent garbage collector toolkit. To appear, 1991.

....from garbage collecting the memory of a single process of bounded duration. In effect, a collector for a conventional system can avoid the problem of very long lived data, because data written to files disappear from the col 52 Examples of this include the UMass Garbage Collection Toolkit [HMDW91] and Wilson and Johnstone s real time garbage collector, which has been adapted for use with C , Eiffel, Scheme, and Dylan [WJ93] lector s point of view. A persistent store keeps those data within the scope of garbage collection, offering the attractive prospect of automatic management of ....

Richard L. Hudson, J. Eliot B. Moss, Amer Diwan, and Christopher F. Weight. A language-independent garbage collector toolkit. Coins Technical Report 9147, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, September 1991.

....ours could eliminate objects from agebased collection by promoting them to mature or key object space, where they would be collected by other algorithms once they age enough. The DTB mechanism we describe is an extreme case of a collection implementation that allows multiple generations (e.g. [5, 12]) As the number of generations grows to the number of live objects, the two concepts merge. From this perspective, our proposed collection policy (DTBdg ) represents a policy to select which generation to collect. This previous work has not quantified the overhead of maintaining large numbers of ....

R. L. Hudson, J. E. B. Moss, and A. Diwan. A language independent garbage collector toolkit. Technical Report COINS TR 91-47, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, September 1991.

....combinations have significant potential for advancing On the Usefulness of Liveness for Garbage Collection and Leak Detection 5 Table 1. Some variations in the two dimensions of garbage collector accuracy Level of type accuracy Level of liveness accuracy None Partial Full None [6] 4,10] [3,18,28] Intraprocedural for local vars [1,2,12,27] Interprocedural for local and global vars (a) b) c) the state of the art in leak detection and garbage collection. For example, consider the combination of interprocedural liveness for local and global variables with the three possibilities for ....

Richard L. Hudson, J. Eliot B. Moss, Amer Diwan, and Christopher F. Weight. A languageindependent garbage collector toolkit. Technical Report 91-47, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, September 1991.

....must do further calculations dependent on the result ry, and thus may take more cycles to execute. The sequence for an address order write barrier [13, 14] is perhaps more interesting. In Figure 8 we use a block size of 2 k ; we also record the interesting stores using a sequential store buffer [8], to illustrate that feature. This sequence takes advantage of the large register set (dedicating registers to hold the block mask m and the SSB pointer s) of the large address space (in using the address order write barrier, which, though it can work in smaller address spaces, is particularly ....

R. L. Hudson, J. E. B. Moss, A. Diwan, and C. F. Weight. A language-independent garbage collector toolkit. COINS Technical Report 91-47, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Sept. 1991.

....9.2 Simulation results for real traces In this section we consider copying costs for real programs. We instrumented two systems to record object lifetimes: a Smalltalk virtual machine [6] and a custom version of the SML NJ compiler [12] We use our language independent garbage collector toolkit [9] to record object allocation and to report the demise of objects at each collection. We configured the collector to collect very frequently (each 40,000 words of allocation for Smalltalk, and 125,000 words for SML) and to collect the whole heap each time. This setup enables accurate (in relation ....

Richard L. Hudson, J. Eliot B. Moss, Amer Diwan, and Christopher F. Weight. A language-independent garbage collector toolkit. Technical Report 91-47, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, September 1991.

....the critical path, and indirectly by diluting the control flow information available to the compiler. Finally, garbage collection degrades performance by changing the memory requirements and memory behavior of programs and by requiring bookkeeping code to support garbage collection. In prior work [60, 40, 103, 41, 104, 42], we have addressed the performance of garbage collection and thus we do not discuss it in this dissertation. Since objects, method invocations, and garbage collection degrade performance, programs written in modern languages typically run slower than equivalent programs written in traditional ....

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....copying costs for real programs. We instrumented three systems to record object lifetimes: a Smalltalk virtual machine [Hosking et al. 1992] a custom version of the SML NJ compiler [Stefanovic and Moss, 1994] and a Java virtual machine. We use our language independent garbage collector toolkit [Hudson et al. 1991] to record object allocation and to report the demise of objects at each collection. We configured the collector to collect very frequently (each 40,000 words of allocation for Smalltalk, and 125,000 words for SML) and to collect the whole heap each time. This setup enables accurate (in relation ....

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.... 1977] Numerous practical implementations and studies of predictive and adaptive management of generations have achieved good performance for generational collectors [Caudill and Wirfs Brock, 1986; Courts, 1988; Shaw, 1988; Wilson, 1989; Wilson and Moher, 1989b; Appel, 1989; Wilson et al. 1991; Hudson et al. 1991; Barrett and Zorn, 1995] Aside from remarks in Wilson s survey [Wilson, 1992] and Jones and Lins book [Jones and Lins, 1996, p.151] which admit the possibility of collecting an older generation independently of a younger one, generational collectors are youngestfirst: when collecting an older ....

Hudson, R. L., Moss, J. E. B., Diwan, A., and Weight, C. F. (1991). A language-independent garbage collector toolkit. COINS Technical Report 91-47, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

....based on object level simulation, and lifetimes are estimated from object reference points. We improve on his Discrete Interval Simulator by taking advantage of complete liveness information. For a more detailed discussion of the UMass Garbage Collector Toolkit consult the original design report [16] and a later article on the Smalltalk system [15] For a broader overview of garbage collection algorithms and generational techniques, consult Wilson s survey paper [29] 6 Acknowledgements In the beginning of this work, Scott Nettles and David Tarditi provided us with some of the benchmarks, ....

Richard L. Hudson, J. Eliot B. Moss, Amer Diwan, and Christopher F. Weight. A language-independent garbage collector toolkit. COINS Technical Report 91-47, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, September 1991.

....that has usually been avoided as requiring too much effort. We encourage others to use the toolkit and to help us extend it. We implemented the toolkit in portable C code and the design is suitable at least for 32 bit byte addressed machines. We have submitted a longer description for publication [Hudson et al. 1991a] and have more details in [Hudson et al. 1991b] 2 Generations, steps, and blocks As in our previous scheme, the collector provides a number of generations, and generations can be inserted or merged at each scavenge. If there are n generations, let us number them 1 through n, with 1 the ....

....much effort. We encourage others to use the toolkit and to help us extend it. We implemented the toolkit in portable C code and the design is suitable at least for 32 bit byte addressed machines. We have submitted a longer description for publication [Hudson et al. 1991a] and have more details in [Hudson et al. 1991b] 2 Generations, steps, and blocks As in our previous scheme, the collector provides a number of generations, and generations can be inserted or merged at each scavenge. If there are n generations, let us number them 1 through n, with 1 the youngest and n the oldest. Unlike the previous ....

Richard L. Hudson, J. Eliot B. Moss, Amer Diwan, and Christopher F. Weight. A language independent garbage collector toolkit. COINS Technical Report 91-47, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, July 1991.

....that has usually been avoided as requiring too much effort. We encourage others to use the toolkit and to help us extend it. We implemented the toolkit in portable C code and the design is suitable at least for 32 bit byte addressed machines. We have submitted a longer description for publication [Hudson et al. 1991a] and have more details in [Hudson et al. 1991b] 2 Generations, steps, and blocks As in our previous scheme, the collector provides a number of generations, and generations can be inserted or merged at each scavenge. If there are n generations, let us number them 1 through n, with 1 the ....

....much effort. We encourage others to use the toolkit and to help us extend it. We implemented the toolkit in portable C code and the design is suitable at least for 32 bit byte addressed machines. We have submitted a longer description for publication [Hudson et al. 1991a] and have more details in [Hudson et al. 1991b] 2 Generations, steps, and blocks As in our previous scheme, the collector provides a number of generations, and generations can be inserted or merged at each scavenge. If there are n generations, let us number them 1 through n, with 1 the youngest and n the oldest. Unlike the previous ....

Richard L. Hudson, J. Eliot B. Moss, Amer Diwan, and Christopher F. Weight. A language-independent garbage collector toolkit. Submitted for publication, August 1991.

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