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Static Memory Management for Logic Programming Languages

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Logic Programming (ICLP 2006)

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Logic programming (LP) languages aim to free programmers from procedural details such as memory management tasks. One classical, automatic memory management technique in logic programming is to use a heap memory for all the structured terms and rely on backtracking and on a runtime garbage collector to reclaim memory. While efficient implementation of garbage collectors for LP languages can reuse more than 90% heap space, they introduce performance penalties to the execution of a program because the collectors need to temporarily stop the main program to do their job.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, K.U. Leuven, Celestijnenlaan, 200A, B-3001, Heverlee, Belgium

    Quan Phan

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  1. University of Twente, The Netherlands

    Sandro Etalle

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky, 40506, Lexington, KY, USA

    Mirosław Truszczyński

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Phan, Q. (2006). Static Memory Management for Logic Programming Languages. In: Etalle, S., Truszczyński, M. (eds) Logic Programming. ICLP 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4079. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11799573_51

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