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Compact garbage collection tables

Published: 16 October 2000 Publication History

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Garbage collection tables for finding pointers on the stack can be represented in 20-25% of the space previously reported. Live pointer information is often the same at many call sites because there are few pointers live across most call sites. This allows live pointer information to be represented compactly by a small index into a table of descriptions of pointer locations. The mapping from program counter values to those small indexes can be represented compactly using several techniques. The techniques a assign numbers to call sites and use those numbers to index an array of small indexes. One technique is to represent an array of return addresses by using a two-level table with 16-bit off-sets. Another technique is to use a sparse array of return addresses and interpolate the exact number via disassembly of the executable code.

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cover image ACM SIGPLAN Notices
ACM SIGPLAN Notices  Volume 36, Issue 1
Jan 2001
177 pages
ISSN:0362-1340
EISSN:1558-1160
DOI:10.1145/362426
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  • cover image ACM Conferences
    ISMM '00: Proceedings of the 2nd international symposium on Memory management
    October 2000
    178 pages
    ISBN:1581132638
    DOI:10.1145/362422
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Published: 16 October 2000
Published in SIGPLAN Volume 36, Issue 1

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