• DOI:10.1145/1094811.1094836
Corpus ID: 6570650

Quantifying the performance of garbage collection vs. explicit memory management

@inproceedings{Hertz2005QuantifyingTP,
  title={Quantifying the performance of garbage collection vs. explicit memory management},
  author={M. Hertz and E. Berger},
  booktitle={OOPSLA '05},
  year={2005}
}

M. Hertz, E. Berger

Published in OOPSLA '05 2005

Computer Science

Garbage collection yields numerous software engineering benefits, but its quantitative impact on performance remains elusive. One can compare the cost of conservative garbage collection to explicit memory management in C/C++ programs by linking in an appropriate collector. This kind of direct comparison is not possible for languages designed for garbage collection (e.g., Java), because programs in these languages naturally do not contain calls to free. Thus, the actual gap between the time and… CONTINUE READING

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