Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
436077 Science of Computer Programming 2006 20 Pages PDF
Abstract

In this article we survey and evaluate methods for measuring and/or illustrating the responsiveness of low-latency garbage collectors. These methods include pause time distributions, minimum and bounded mutator utilization curves, percentile utilization curves, and cathedral graphs; the latter we introduce. We also discuss why we believe it is important to evaluate a garbage collector on its compliance against an application-specific goal. We propose to do so with two techniques: Vmetrics and GC overhead graphs.

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