Re: Research Region Based Memory Management for Imperative Languages

2010-08-27 Thread Uday P. Khedker
We have had a long term plan (which has not fructified until now) of implementing a static analysis for improving garbage collection. Our paper in TOPLAS (http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1290521) describes our early work. The main bottle neck for our purpose is a good pointer analysis and we

Re: Research Region Based Memory Management for Imperative Languages

2010-08-26 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Matt Davis writes: > I am just trying to settle down on my PhD Computer Science dissertation > topic. I want something low-level, compiler related, and more so > useful/practical. I am considering region-based memory management, to show > memory efficiency and safety. For imperative languages,

Research Region Based Memory Management for Imperative Languages

2010-08-26 Thread Matt Davis
Hello, I am just trying to settle down on my PhD Computer Science dissertation topic. I want something low-level, compiler related, and more so useful/practical. I am considering region-based memory management, to show memory efficiency and safety. For imperative languages, such as c, this is ra