posts tagged "garbage collection" (feed)

allocate, memory (part one of n)

defragmentation

blocks and pages and large objects

an optimistic evacuation of my wordhoard

unintentional concurrency

coarse or lazy?

on "correct and efficient work-stealing for weak memory models"

the sticky mark-bit algorithm

ephemerons and finalizers

are ephemerons primitive?

a simple semi-space collector

we iterate so that you can recurse

i'm throwing ephemeron party & you're invited

ephemeral success

parallel ephemeron tracing

three approaches to heap sizing

whippet: towards a new local maximum

a world to win: webassembly for the rest of us

a negative result

on safepoints

i accidentally a scheme

whiffle, a purpose-built scheme

a whiff of whiffle

tree-shaking, the horticulturally misguided algorithm

the last 5 years of V8's garbage collector

v8's mark-sweep nursery

a simple hdr histogram

v8's precise field-logging remembered set

missing the point of webassembly

copying collectors with block-structured heaps are unreliable

finalizers, guardians, phantom references, et cetera

whippet progress update: funding, features, future

whippet update: faster evacuation, eager sweeping of empty blocks

on taking advantage of ragged stops

conservative gc can be faster than precise gc

whippet progress update: feature-complete!

preliminary notes on a nofl field-logging barrier