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A simple generational real-time garbage collection scheme

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This paper presents and empirically evaluates a generational real-time garbage collection scheme, which is based on combining Baker’s real-time scheme with a simple generational scheme by Andrew W. Appel.

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  1. RWCP Novel Functions SICS Laboratory, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Box 1263, S-164 28, Kista, Sweden

    Khayri A. M. Ali

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Khayri A. M. Ali, Ph.D.: He currently works as Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science at October University for Modern Sciences and Arts, Egypt. He received his B. Sc. (1970) in Electronics, his M. Sc. (1977) in Automatic Control, both from Egypt. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Systems from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, in 1984. His research interests are in developing parallel and distributed logic, functional, object-oriented, and constraints programming systems.

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Ali, K.A.M. A simple generational real-time garbage collection scheme. NGCO 16, 201–221 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03037316

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