This page contains links to the papers presented at the 1997 OOPSLA Workshop on Garbage Collection and Memory Management. All these papers are held at the Department of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.

A leading (*) indicates that the authors have made available a version of their paper that is more up to date than the one presented at OOPSLA'97.

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All Papers (717K)

Cyclic Distributed Garbage Collection Without Global Synchronization in CORBA. Gustavo Rodriguez-Rivera and Vince Russo

Finding References in Java Stacks. Ole Agesen and David Detlefs

A Proposal for a Standard Memory Management Interface. Nick Barnes et al

(*) Predictable Automatic Memory Management for Embedded Systems. Roger Henriksson

Reachability-based Orthogonal Persistence for C, C++ and Other Intransigents. Antony L Hosking and Aria P Novianto

GLEANER-7: A Hybrid Distributed GC Algorithm: Munenori Maeda and Yutaka Ishikawa

Concurrent Collection for the Java Development Kit. Alex Garthwaite and Scott Nettles

Oscar: A GC Testbed. Jonathan Moore, Mike Hicks and Scott Nettles

The Memory Manager for the Aurora Java Virtual Machine. Peter Benson

PerDIS PPF Case Study: Fitting a Distributed Garbage Collection Algorithm to a Persistent Distributed Store Architecture. Xavier Blondel, Paulo Ferreira and Marc Shapiro

A Detection Algorithm for Distributed Cycles of Garbage. Fabrice Le Fessant, Ian Piumarta and Marc Shapiro

A Smalltalk Memory Profiler. Jingyu Sun and Edward F Gehringer

(*) The Memory Fragmentation Problem: Solved? Mark S Johnstone and Paul R Wilson

A Framework for Storage Management Evaluation in Persistent Object Systems. Thorna O Humphries, Alexander Wolf and Benjamin G Zorn

Bytecode Instrumentation as an Aid in Understanding the Behaviour of Java Persistent Stores. Han Bok Lee and Benjamin G Zorn.