Title
The case for profile-directed selection of garbage collectors
Abstract
Many garbage-collected systems use a single garbage collection algorithm across all applications. It has long been known that this can produce poor performance on applications for which that collector is not well suited. In some systems, such as those that execute stand-alone compiled executables, an appropriate collector for each application can be selected from a pool of available collectors and tuned by using profile information. In a study of 20 benchmarks and several collectors, compiled with the Marmot optimizing Java-to-native compiler, for every collector there was at least one benchmark that would have been at least 15% faster with a more appropriate collector. The collectors are a copying collector, a generational copying collector, which is combined with each of 4 different write barriers, and the null collector, which allocates but never collects. A detailed analysis of storage management costs shows how they vary by application and collector.
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
10.1145/362426.362472
Sigplan Notices
Keywords
Field
DocType
garbage collection,col,garbage collector,memory allocation
Garbage,Computer science,Parallel computing,Copying,Compiler,Real-time computing,Memory management,Garbage collection,Storage management,Operating system,Executable
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
36
1
0362-1340
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-58113-263-8
24
1.69
References 
Authors
13
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Robert P. Fitzgerald113269.13
David Tarditi225825.74