Generational stack collection and profile-driven pretenuring
Generational stack collection and profile-driven pretenuring
P. Cheng,R. Harper,Peter Lee
1998 · DOI: 10.1145/277650.277718
ACM-SIGPLAN Symposium on Programming Language Design and Implementation · 115 Citations
TLDR
This paper presents two techniques for improving garbage collection performance: generational stack collection and profile-driven pretenuring, which is applicable to stack-based implementations of functional languages while the second is useful for any generational collector.