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Garbage collection (computer science)

Known as: Garbage collector (computer science), Tri-colour marking, Computer memory garbage collection 
In computer science, garbage collection (GC) is a form of automatic memory management. The garbage collector, or just collector, attempts to reclaim… 
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2009
Highly Cited
2009
Experience with Model Checking Linearizability
Non-blocking concurrent algorithms offer significant performance advantages, but are very difficult to construct and verify. In… 
Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Better Alignments = Better Translations?
Automatic word alignment is a key step in training statistical machine translation systems. Despite much recent work on word… 
Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Deterministic service guarantees for nand flash using partial block cleaning
NAND flash idiosyncrasies such as bulk erase and wear leveling results in non-linear and unpredictable read/write access times… 
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Making sense of censuses and dealing with missing data: trends in pup counts of Cape fur seal Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus for the period 1972–2004
Trends in the population of Cape fur seals Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus were estimated from counts of pups on aerial… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Retorno de nutrientes via deposição de serapilheira em um povoamento de acácia-negra (Acacia mearnsii De Wild.) no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul
This study aimed to evaluate all the aspects involved in the transfer of litterfall and nutrients into the soil in a 3-year-old… 
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Heuristics for the Mixed Rural Postman Problem
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Hard real-time garbage collection in the Jamaica virtual machine
  • Fridtjof Siebert
  • Proceedings Sixth International Conference on…
  • 1999
  • Corpus ID: 350770
Java's automatic memory management is the main reason that prevents Java from being used in hard real-time environments. We… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Fixing some space leaks with a garbage collector
Some functional programs may use more space than would be expected. A modification to the garbage collector is suggested which… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
An 8-kbit content-addressable and reentrant memory
A 256-word/spl times/32-bit associated memory, referred to as the Content Addressable and Reentrant Memory (CARM), with a 100-ns… 
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
Parallel laguerre iterations: The complex case
SummaryConsider a polynomialP(z) of degreeN whose zeros are known to lie insideN closed disks, each disk containing one and only… 
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