Vectorized garbage collection

Andrew Wilson Appel, Aage Bendiksen

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Abstract

Garbage collection can be done in vector mode on supercomputers like the CRAY-2 and the Cyber 205. Both copying collection and mark-and-sweep can be expressed as breadth-first searches in which the "queue" can be processed in parallel. We have designed a copying garbage collector whose inner loop works entirely in vector mode. We give performance measurements of the algorithm as implemented for Lisp CONS cells on the Cyber 205. Vector-mode garbage collection performs up to nine times faster than scalar-mode collection-a worthwhile improvement.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)151-160
Number of pages10
JournalThe Journal of Supercomputing
Volume3
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 1 1989

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Information Systems
  • Hardware and Architecture

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