Object resizing and reclamation through the use of hardware bit-maps

摘要

The memory intensive nature of object-oriented languages such as C + + and Java has created the need of a high-performance dynamic memory management. Object-oriented applications often generate higher memory intensity in the heap region. Thus, high-performance memory manager is needed to cope with such applications. As today's VLSI technology advances, it becomes more and more attractive to map so software algorithms such as malloc(), free(), and garbage collection into hardware. This paper presents hardware designs of realloc function and sweeping function(for mark and sweep garbage collection)that fully utilize The advantages of combinational logic.