Memory Management with Explicit Regions

Memory Management with Explicit Regions (1998)

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TITLE	Memory Management with Explicit Regions	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR NAME	David Gay	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR AFFIL	EECS Department; University of California, Berkeley	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR NAME	Alex Aiken	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR AFFIL	EECS Department; University of California, Berkeley	user correction - Legacy Corrections
ABSTRACT	Much research has been devoted to studies of and algorithms for memory management based on garbage collection or explicit allocation and deallocation. An alternative approach, region-based memory management, has been known for decades, but has not been wellstudied. In a region-based system each allocation specifies a region, and memory is reclaimed by destroying a region, freeing all the storage allocated therein. We show that on a suite of allocation-intensive C programs, regions are competitive with malloc/free and sometimes substantially faster. We also show that regions support safe memory management with low overhead. Experience with our benchmarks suggests that modifying many existing programs to use regions is not difficult. 1 Introduction The two most popular memory management techniques are explicit allocation and deallocation, as in C's malloc/free, and various forms of garbagecollection [Wil92]. Both have well-known advantages and disadvantages, discussed further below. A t...	user correction - Legacy Corrections
YEAR	1998	INFERENCE
VENUE TYPE	CONFERENCE	INFERENCE
PAGES	313--323	INFERENCE
CITATIONS	22 found	ParsCit 1.0