• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.29 no.12
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• pp.957-965
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• 2002

Garbage collection in the CLDC typically employs a stop-the-world GC algorithm which is performing a complete garbage collection when needed. This technique is unsuitable for the interactive Java embedded system because this can lead to long and unpredictable delays. In this paper, We present a garbage collection algorithm which reduces the average delay time and supports the interactive environment. Our garbage collector is composed of the allocator and the collector. The allocator determines the allocation position of free-list according to object size, and the collector uses an incremental mark-sweep algorithm. The garbage collector is called periodically by the thread scheduling policy and the allocator allocates the objects of marked state during collection cycle. Also, we introduce a color toggle mechanism that changes the meaning of the bit patterns at the end of the collection cycle. We compared the performance of our implementation with stop-the-world mark-sweep GC. The experimental results show that our algorithm reduces the average delay time and that it provides uniformly low response times.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.151-153
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• 2004

점진적 검사점은 페이지 쓰기 보호를 사용하여 검사점에서 변경된 페이지만을 저장한다. 점진적 검사점을 사용하면 검사점 오버헤드가 줄어드는 반면에 프로세스의 메모리 페이지들이 여러 검사점에 걸쳐있기 때문에 오래된 검사점들을 병합하거나 지울 수 없다. 본 논문에서는 점진적 검사점에서 복구와 쓰레기 수집을 위한 효율적인 병합 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안한 알고리즘으로 점진적 검사점들을 병합하여 복구를 위한 완전 검사점을 만들고 불필요한 검사점들을 지울 수 있다.