Garbage Collection is Fast, But a Stack is Faster

Prompted by claims that garbage collection can outperform stack allocation when sufficient physical memory is available, we present a careful analysis and set of cross-architecture measurements comparing these two approaches for the implementation of continuation (procedure call) frames. When the fr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Miller, James S., Rozas, Guillermo J.
Language:en_US
Published: 2004
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6622