Region-based memory management offers several important advantages over garbage-collected heap, including real-time performance, better data locality and efficient use of limited memory. The concept of regions was first introduced for a call-by-value functional language by Tofte and Talpin, and has since been advocated for imperative and object-oriented languages. Scope memory, a lexical variant of regions, is now a core feature in a recent proposal on Real-Time Specification for Java (RTSJ). In this paper, we propose a region-based memory management system for a core subset of Java. Our region type analysis can completely prevent dangling references and thus is ready to cater for the no-dangling requirement in RTSJ. Our system also supports modular compilation, which is an important feature for Java, but was missing in recent related work. / Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:MIT/oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/3871 |
| Date | 01 1900 |
| Creators | Chin, Wei Ngan, Qin, Shengchao, Rinard, Martin C. |
| Source Sets | M.I.T. Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article |
| Format | 115855 bytes, application/pdf |
| Relation | Computer Science (CS); |
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