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Monday Afternoon
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| 28 | Garbage Collection Richard Jones, University of Kent Eric Jul, University of Copenhagen |
Colorado Convention Center - A202  |
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This tutorial presents the issues facing modern high performance garbage collection and examines the approaches taken by state of the art garbage collectors. Participants will gain a deeper insight into the operation of these high performance garbage collectors. The tutorial will enable participants to evaluate the benefits and costs of garbage collection algorithms, to understand the implications for their code and to make informed choices between collectors.
Attendee background: Participants will be experienced programmers familiar with basic garbage collection technology. Basic knowledge of OO implementation is useful but not essential. Richard Jones is a Senior Lecturer and Deputy Director of the Computing Laboratory at the University of Kent. He is the prime author of the book on Garbage Collection. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the International Symposium on Memory Management and was Program Chair for ISMM`98. Eric Jul is an Associate Professor at DIKU, the Dept. of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, where he leads research in distributed, heterogeneous computing. He is co-designer and principal implementor of the Emerald distributed object-oriented programming language. He was Program Chair for ECOOP`98. |
