Very concurrent mark-&-sweep garbage collection without fine-grain synchronization

@inproceedings{Huelsbergen1998VeryCM,
  title={Very concurrent mark-\&-sweep garbage collection without fine-grain synchronization},
  author={Lorenz Huelsbergen and Phil Winterbottom},
  booktitle={ISMM '98},
  year={1998}
}
We describe a new incremental algorithm for the concurrent reclamation of a program's allocated, yet unreachable, data. Our algorithm is a variant of mark-&-sweep collection that---unlike prior designs---runs mutator, marker, and sweeper threads concurrently without explicit fine-grain synchronization on shared-memory multiprocessors. A global, but infrequent, synchronization coordinates the per-object coloring marks used by the three threads; fine-grain synchronization is achieved without… 
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