An efficient, reference weight-based garbage collection method fordistributed systems

摘要

A method of distributed garbage collection using referencencounting has been developed previously by D.I. Bevan (1987). This methodnis correct but has one severe drawback: the time overhead caused by thenuse of indirection cells. The authors describe an alternative: thenreference weight table method. It is shown that this method does notnsuffer from as much time overhead and offers general improvements