> Anyway, the idea I was referring to earlier needs to be researched
> better, but for now I'm calling it incremental gc. The idea is similar to
The idea you are describing has been researched quite well...and it works
pretty well. The slower garbage collector the better it is. People usual
call your algorithm Escape Analysis.
See the proceeedings of OOPSLA'99 for further reference:
Escape Analysis for Java...IBM Watson Research Center (Jalape�o)
Choi et.al
Escape Analysis for Object-Oriented Languages. Application to Java
Bruno Blanchet (INRIA)
Removing Unnecessary Synchronization in Java
Jeff Bogda, Urs H�lzle (UCSB)
Compositional Pointers and Escape Analysis for Java Programs (MIT/IBM)
John Whaley, Martin Rinard
/Joakim
-- JRockit http://www.fasterjava.com
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