ncjuul@diku.dk (Niels Christian Juul) (12/27/90)
POSITION PAPERS ON GARBAGE COLLECTION ISSUES. FROM Workshop on Garbage Collection in Object-Oriented Systems. The workshop was held in conjunction with the Joint ECOOP/OOPSLA'90 Conference at Hotel Chateau Laurier, Ottawa, Canada on Sunday October, 21st, 1990. Most of the position papers from the workshop are now made available for anonymous FTP from midgard.ucsc.edu (North America) in: /pub/gc/ (IP. 128.114.134.15) Only available until 1 Feb 1991 and ftp.diku.dk (Europe) in: /pub/GC90/ (IP. 129.142.96.1) Available until further notice. Login as anonymous and state your own email-address as password. THE PAPERS ARE SUBMITTED IN POSTSCRIPT FORMAT AND COMPRESSED. TO PRINT THE PAPERS: uncompress xxxxx.ps.Z and lpr xxxxx.ps 'on your favorite printer' Further information on the individual papers are available by contacting the appropriate authors; see list of attendees in file: Attendees.ps In case of trouble you may contact: daniel@terra.ucsc.edu (Daniel Edelson) or: ncjuul@diku.dk (Niels Christian Juul) Enclosed you find a list of the available position papers. Good luck, 1990.DEC.27. Daniel Edelson & Niels Christian Juul UCSC, CA, USA DIKU, Denmark, Europe ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS: A Generational, Compacting Garbage Collector for C++ Joel F. Bartlett, WRL/DEC, Palo Alto, CA, USA. Real-Time Compacting Garbage Collection Mats Bengtsson and Boris Magnusson, Lund University, Sweden. Experience with Garbage Collection for Modula-2+ in the Topaz Environment John DeTreville, SRC/DEC, Palo Alto, CA, USA. Concurrent, Atomic Garbage Collection David L. Detlefs, SRC/DEC, Palo Alto, CA, USA. The Case for Garbage Collection in C++ Daniel Edelson, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA. Garbage Collection in an Object Oriented, Distributed, Persistent Environment A. El-Habbash, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Storage Reclamation Paulo Ferreira, INESC/IST, Lisboa, Portugal. Open Systems Require Conservative Garbage Collection Barry Hayes, Stanford University, CA, USA. Adaptive Garbage Collection for Modula-3 and Smalltalk Richard Hudson and Amer Diwan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA. A Distributed, Faulting Garbage Collector for Emerald Niels Christian Juul, DIKU, Copenhagen, Denmark. SPiCE Collector: The Run-Time Garbage Collector for Smalltalk-80 Programs Translated into C Satoshi Kurihara, Norihisa Doi, and Kazuki Yasumatsu, Keio University, Japan. Real-Time Concurrent Collection in User Mode Kai Li, Princeton University, NJ, USA. A Fast Expected-Time Compacting Garbage-Collection Algorithm Christer Mattsson, Lund University, Sweden. Garbage Collecting Persistent Object Stores J. Eliot B. Moss, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA. Hardware Support for Garbage Collection of Linked Objects and Arrays in Real Time Kelvin Nielsen and William J. Schmidt, Iowa State Univesity, Ames, IA, USA. A garbage detection protocol for a realistic distributed object-support system Marc Shapiro, INRIA, Rocquencourt, France. Three Issues In Obejct-Oriented Garbage Collection Jon L. White, Lucid, Inc., Menlo Park, CA, USA. Garbage Collection in a High-Performance System Mario Wolczko, The University, Manchester, UK. Designing Systems for Evaluation: A Case Study of Garbage Collection Benjamin Zorn, University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA.