Re: [rvm-research] Regarding Reference-Counting implementation in Jikes 3.1.3

Rifat Shahriyar <[email protected]>
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Hello,
The reference counting in Jikes 3.1.3 is not a naive reference counting, 
rather a high performance one based on [1]. It is a deferred and 
coalesced reference counter with some optimization for new objects. It 
occasionally collect cycles but not always.

Regards
-
Rifat
Australian National University

[1] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2258996.2259008

On 8/11/2013 3:35 am, Hari Krishnan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running the test-scripts from the MMTK Harness to check the 
> implementations available in Jikes MMTk source. I am wondering if the 
> Reference Count implementation is naive reference count implementation 
> or modified RC to collect cycles as well. I see the cycles are 
> collected always. Could you brief me about this? Are there any 
> documents that I can go through to understand how Reference Count is 
> implemented?
>
>
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