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Reusing Local Regions in Memory-limited Java Virtual Machines  

Kim, Tae-In (한국과학기술원 전산학과)
Kim, Seong-Gun (한국과학기술원 전산학과)
Han, Hwan-Soo (한국과학기술원 전산학과)
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Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications / v.34, no.6, 2007 , pp. 562-571 More about this Journal
Abstract
Various researches had been devoted in purpose of improving memory management in terms of performance, efficiency, ease of use, and safety. One of these approaches is a region-based memory management. Each allocation site selects a specific region, after that allocated objects are placed in this region. Memory is reclaimed by destroying the region, freeing all the objects allocated therein. In this paper, we propose reusing of local regions to reduce heap memory usage in memory-limited environments. The basic idea of this proposal is reusing of upper local regions where objects that are allocated to these regions are not accessed until the current method is finished. We believe our method of reusing local regions is able to overcome memory constraints in memory-limited environments.
Keywords
Java Virtual Machine; Region-based Memory Management; Reusing Regions;
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