Daniel Frampton
Australian National University.
 
Generational Real-time Garbage Collection.

While real-time garbage collection is now available in production
virtual machines, the lack of generational capability means
applications with high allocation rates are subject to reduced
throughput and high space overheads.
 
Since frequent allocation is often correlated with a high-level,
object-oriented style of programming, this can force builders of
real-time systems to compromise on software engineering.
 
In my presentation I will give an overview of the current state
of real-time garbage collection, including a description of an
algorithm I have developed for a fully incremental, real-time,
generational collector. This collector delivers significant
throughput improvements in generational applications, while
retaining real-time guarantees.
 
The algorithm discussed in this talk was presented at ECOOP 2007 in
Berlin earlier this year.