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Chinta, Ramakrishna (1992) Hardware-Assisted Garbage Collection for the Icon Programming Language. Technical Report TR92-39, Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University.

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Abstract

Hardware-Assisted Garbage Collection for the Icon Programming Language
Ramakrishna Chinta
Hardware-Assisted garbage collection for Icon guarantees real-time response
and consistent performance.  This report describes the changes made to Icon's
run-time system in porting Icon to the hardware-assisted garbage collection
environment and compares the performance of fifty Icon programs using the
traditional and hardware-assisted garbage collection implementations.
Throughput for the hardware-assisted system ranges from 45% slower to
28% faster than the traditional system.  Suggestions for improving the
performance of the hardware-assisted implementation are also discussed.




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Deposited by:Staff Account on 01 December 1992









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