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Exploiting The Weak Generational Hypothesis For Write Reduction And Object Recycling, Jonathan Andrew Shidal

McKelvey School of Engineering Theses & Dissertations

Programming languages with automatic memory management are continuing to grow in popularity due to ease of programming. However, these languages tend to allocate objects excessively, leading to inefficient use of memory and large garbage collection and allocation overheads.

The weak generational hypothesis notes that objects tend to die young in languages with automatic dynamic memory management. Much work has been done to optimize allocation and garbage collection algorithms based on this observation. Previous work has largely focused on developing efficient software algorithms for allocation and collection. However, much less work has studied architectural solutions. In this work, we propose and …