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Sapphire: Copying GC without stopping the world

Hudson et al., 2001

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16418232425962176495
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Hudson R
Moss J
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Proceedings of the 2001 joint ACM-ISCOPE conference on Java Grande

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Many concurrent garbage collection (GC) algorithms have been devised, but few have been implemented and evaluated, particularly for the Java programming language. Sapphire is an algorithm we have devised for concurrent copying GC. Sapphire stresses minimizing the …
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