ThreadScan: Automatic and Scalable Memory Reclamation

The concurrent memory reclamation problem is that of devising a way for a deallocating thread to verify that no other concurrent threads hold references to a memory block being deallocated. To date, in the absence of automatic garbage collection, there is no satisfactory solution to this problem. Ex...

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Main Authors: Alistarh, Dan, Leiserson, William Mitchell, Matveev, Alexander, Shavit, Nir N.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112177
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