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A survey of distributed garbage collection techniques

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Memory Management (IWMM 1995)

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We present the spectrum of distributed garbage collection techniques. We first describe those reference counting-based techniques and compare them, in particular with respect to resilience to message failures. Reference counting-based techniques are acyclic since they are unable to collect cyclic data structures. We then describe a number of hybrid schemes improving over distributed reference counting algorithms in order to collect cyclic garbage. We then describe tracing-based techniques derived from uniprocessor tracing-based techniques. Finally, we discuss the pros and cons of each technique.

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  1. ILOG, 2 av Galliéni, B.P. 85, 94253, Gentilly Cedex, France

    David Plainfossé

  2. Projet SOR, INRIA, B.P. 105, 78153, Le Chesnay Cedex, France

    Marc Shapiro

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Plainfossé, D., Shapiro, M. (1995). A survey of distributed garbage collection techniques. In: Baler, H.G. (eds) Memory Management. IWMM 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 986. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60368-9_26

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