Memory Management

This is the first book entirely dedicated to the problem of memory management in programming language implementation. Its originality stems from the diversity of languages and approaches presented: functional programming, logic programming, object oriented programming, and parallel and sequential programming. The book contains 29 selected and refereed papers including 3 survey papers, 4 on distributed systems, 4 on parallelism, 4 on functional languages, 3 on logic programming languages, 3 on object oriented languages, 3 on incremental garbage collection, 2 on improving locality, 2 on massively parallel architectures, and an invited paper on the thermodynamics of garbage collection. The book provides a snapshot of the latest research in the domain of memory management for high-level programming language implementations.

Inhalt
Uniprocessor garbage collection techniques.- Collection schemes for distributed garbage.- Dynamic memory management for sequential logic programming languages.- Comprehensive and robust garbage collection in a distributed system.- Experience with a fault-tolerant garbage collector in a distributed lisp system.- Scalable distributed garbage collection for systems of active objects.- Distributed garbage collection of active objects with no global synchronisation.- Memory management for parallel tasks in shared memory.- Incremental multi-threaded garbage collection on virtually shared memory architectures.- Generational garbage collection for lazy graph reduction.- A conservative garbage collector with ambiguous roots for static typechecking languages.- An efficient implementation for coroutines.- An implementation of an applicative file system.- A compile-time memory-reuse scheme for concurrent logic programs.- Finalization in the collector interface.- Precompiling C++ for garbage collection.- GC-cooperative C++.- Dynamic revision of choice points during garbage collection in prolog [II/III].- Ecological memory management in a continuation passing prolog engine.- Replication-based incremental copying collection.- Atomic incremental garbage collection.- Incremental collection of mature objects.- Object type directed garbage collection to improve locality.- Allocation regions & implementation contracts.- A concurrent generational garbage collector for a parallel graph reducer.- Garbage collection in Aurora: An overview.- Collections and garbage collection.- Memory management and garbage collection of an extended common lisp system for massively parallel SIMD architecture.- NREVERSAL of fortune The thermodynamics of garbage collection.