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Low-latency, high-throughput garbage collection
Low-latency, high-throughput garbage collection Wenyu Zhao, Stephen M.
To push the cooking metaphor too far: this paper can be thought of as a sausage recipe: instructions for combining many clever ideas to make a tasty dish (named LXR). The code which tracks which fields have been updated and adds elements onto the buffers is inlined into the application threads/business logic and is called the write barrier: This happens when some book-keeping code with very little compute requirements does frequent random accesses, IPC falls precipitously, and your wicked fast 5GHz 8-wide superscalar machine ends slows to a crawl.
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