Reference Publications

Concurrent GC

• E. W. Dijkstra, On-the-Fly Garbage Collection: An Exercise in Cooperation, CACM '78
• Tony Printezis and David Detlefs, A Generational Mostly-Concurrent Garbage Collector, SML Technical Report '00
• Yossi Levanoni, Erez Petrank, An on-the-fly Reference Counting Garbage Collector for Java, OOPSLA '01
• Yoav Ossia, Ori Ben-Yitzhak, Irit Goft, Elliot K. Kolodner, Victor Leikehman, Avi Owshanko, A Parallel, Incremental and Concurrent GC for Servers, PLDI '02
• David F. Bacon, Clement R. Attanasio, Han B. Lee, V.T. Rajan, and Stephen E. Smith, Java without the Coffee Breaks: A Non-intrusive Multiprocessor Garbage Collector, PLDI '01

Generational GC

• Andrew W. Appel, Simple Generational Garbage Collection and Fast Allocation, Software Practice and Experience '89

Reference Counting

• Bavid F. Bacon, V.T. Rajan, Concurrent Cycle Collection in Reference Counted Systems, ECOOP '01
• H. Azatchi and E. Petrank, Integrating Generations with Advanced Reference Counting Garbage Collectors, To appear in CC '03

Mark Compacting

• F. Lockwood Morris, A time- and space-efficient garbage compaction algorithm, CACM '78

Copying

• Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley, J. Eliot B. Moss, Beltway: Getting around Garbage Collection Gridlock, PLDI '02

Pretenuring / Smart allocation

• Blackburn, S. M., Singhai, S., Hertz, M., McKinley, K. S., and Moss, J. E. B., Pretenuring for Java, OOPSLA '01
• T. Domani, G. Goldshtein, E. K. Kolodner, E. Lewis, E. Petrank, and D. Sheinwald, Thread Local Heaps for Java, ISMM '02

Write Barriers

• Karen Zee and Martin Rinard, Write Barrier Removal by Static Analysis, OOPSLA '02
• Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley, In or Out? Putting Write Barriers in Their Place, ISMM '02

Studies and Surveys

• Antony L. Hosking, J. Eliot B. Moss, Darko Stefanovic, A Comparative Performance Evaluation of Write Barrier Implementations, OOPSLA '92
• Sylvia Dieckmann, Urs Hoelzle, A Study of the Allocation Behavior of the SPECjvm98 Java Benchmarks, ECOOP '99
• Martin Hirzel, Johannes Henkel, Amer Diwan, and Michael Hind, Understanding the Connectivity of Heap Objects, ISMM '02
• Clement R. Attanasio, David F. Bacon, A. Cocchi, and Stephen E. Smith A, A Comparative Evaluation of Parallel Garbage Collectors, LCPC '01
• Paul R. Wilson, Uniprocessor Garbage Collection Techniques, IWMM '92

Other

• Tim Brecht , Eshrat Arjomandi , Chang Li , Hang Pham, Controlling garbage collection and heap growth to reduce the execution time of Java applications, OOPSLA '01