Concurrent non-deferred reference counting on the microgrid : first experiences
Herhut, Stephan, Joslin, C., Scholz, Sven-Bodo, Poss, R and Grelck, Clemens
(2011)
Concurrent non-deferred reference counting on the microgrid : first experiences.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
pp. 185-202.
ISSN 0302-9743
We present a first evaluation of our novel approach for non-deferred reference counting on the Microgrid many-core architecture. Non-deferred reference counting is a fundamental building block of implicit heap management of functional array languages in general and Single Assignment C in particular. Existing lock-free approaches for multi-core and SMP settings do not scale well for large numbers of cores in emerging many-core platforms. We, instead, employ a dedicated core for reference counting and use asynchronous messaging to emit reference counting operations. This novel approach decouples computational workload from reference-counting overhead.
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Keywords | Apple-CORE |
Date Deposited | 29 May 2025 08:59 |
Last Modified | 29 May 2025 08:59 |