17th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD'05)
A New Multi-Processor Architecture for Parallel Lazy Cyclic Reference Counting
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
October 24-October 27
ISBN: 0-7695-2446-X
Reference counting is the memory management technique of most widespread use today. This paper presents a new multi-processor architecture for parallel cyclic reference counting. In this architecture, there is no direct Mutator-Collector communication and synchronization is kept minimal.