کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
436075 1441779 2006 23 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Safe manual memory management in Cyclone
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی کامپیوتر نظریه محاسباتی و ریاضیات
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Safe manual memory management in Cyclone
چکیده انگلیسی

The goal of the Cyclone project is to investigate how to make a low-level C-like language safe. Our most difficult challenge has been providing programmers with control over memory management while retaining safety. This paper describes our experience trying to integrate and use effectively two previously-proposed, safe memory-management mechanisms: statically-scoped regions and tracked pointers. We found that these typing mechanisms can be combined to build alternative memory-management abstractions, such as reference counted objects and arenas with dynamic lifetimes, and thus provide a flexible basis. Our experience — porting C programs and device drivers, and building new applications for resource-constrained systems — confirms that experts can use these features to improve memory footprint and sometimes to improve throughput when used instead of, or in combination with, conservative garbage collection.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Science of Computer Programming - Volume 62, Issue 2, 1 October 2006, Pages 122-144