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

Hi Rifat,

Thank you. I will look at the paper you referred. Thank you for the reply.


On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Rifat Shahriyar
<[email protected]>wrote:

>  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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