Memory management resources

This page contains links to resources relevant to memory management research and development. The project would be grateful to receive suggestions for further additions to this page.

Bibliographic resources

• Richard Jones' comprehensive (2100+ references) bibliography.
• Ravenbrook's Memory Management Reference page includes a comprehensive glossary, a FAQ, articles and links as well as news of memory management related events.

The Garbage Collection Page

• the Garbage Collection Page In addition to the GC bibliography, this page provides a comprehensive set of GC related resources. It contains links to
  • Richard Jones' Garbage Collection book.
  • commercial and public domain garbage collectors and debugging tools.
  • Related conferences, workshops and tutorials.

Tools

• is a novel framework and tool for heap visualisation from Tony Printezis and Richard Jones. In contrast to the CLR Profiler, GCspy is VM-independent and allows the user to connect/disconnect at will.
• The CLR Profiler is a free allocation-profiling tool from Microsoft for the CLR.

Benchmarks

One of the biggest problems facing memory management research has been the lack of a set of good benchmarks. While there is certainly more work to be done, this directory describes the progress made and lists some widely used (and proposed) benchmarks for memory management research.

Directory of UK memory management researchers

This directory lists UK researchers known to have memory management interests. These interests are loosely defined, and cover explicit and automatic memory management, implementation of virtual machines, tools for the analysis of memory performance and static analysis techniques for improving correctness of programs that manipulate heap-allocated data.

The GC mailing list

• A mailing list subscribed to by most GC researchers. Traffic volume is modest and tends to be bursty.
  To subscribe, send sub gclist or sub gclist-digest to majordomo@iecc.com.

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