Garbage Collection

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Seminar im Wintersemester 2001.

Prof. Gert Smolka, Dr. Christian Schulte, Thorsten Brunklaus.
Fachrichtung Informatik, Universität des Saarlandes.

Termine und Ort

Mittwoch, 16-18 Uhr, R528, Gebäude 45

Beginn am Mittwoch, dem 24. Oktober 2001.

Anmeldung

Die Ameldung zum Seminar erfolgt per E-Mail an Thorsten Brunklaus.

Die Vorträge für die einzelnen Teilnehmer werden am ersten Termin vergeben.

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Inhalt

Garbage collection is concerned with the automatic reclamation of memory after its last use by a program. The focus here is on that reclamation is automatic and free of errors. This is in contrast to explicit deallocation by the programmer which is difficult and error-prone. Deallocating memory too late eventually crashes the program as it runs out of memory. Deallocating memory too early either crashes the program or leads to unpredictable results as the access to still needed memory is not longer possible.

We will discuss the most fundamental algorithms for garbage collection. This includes basic algorithms but also algrithms for generational, concurrent, incremental, realtime and distributed garbage collection. We will in particular consider integration of garbage collection into programming platforms such as Microsoft's .NET, Java but also C, C++ (conservative garbage collection).

Garbage collection is an active area of research with thousands of publications as well as a widely used technique in most modern programming systems.

Bemerkung

Depending on the participants, the talks will be in English.

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Christian Schulte, Letzte Änderung: Do 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 UTC.