Xi Yang
Australian National University

Scalable Garbage Collector On Multi-core Processors

Due to the power limit, the trend of developing general purpose processors has
been switching from increasing the frequency to increasing the number of
cores. To match the roadmap of processors, the software system has to be
scalable. The synchronization between cores is one of the most important
factor to limit the scalability. In this talk, I will introduce the project we
are working on about improving the scalability of garbage collection by
avoiding the unnecessary synchronization between parallel collectors.