dynamic library cost (was RE: libtool, java woes)

Fri Apr 13 12:31:00 GMT 2001

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dewar@gnat.com [ mailto:dewar@gnat.com ]
>> <<Read the paper "Compiler Support for Garbage Collection in a
> Statically Typed Language", by Diwan, Moss, and Hudson. My copy says
> "To appear in SIGPLAN '92 PLDI".
> >>
Proceedings of the SIGPLAN '92 Conference on Programming Language Design and
Implementation, pp. 273-282.
>> Well there is a VERY extensive literature much earlier than 
> this. Remember
> that Algol-68 requires fully type accurate garbage 
> collection, and all the
> problems were worked out in the early 70's, with a general 
> conclusion that
> the costs are not that high (this includes dealing with 
> parallel incremental
> garbage collection in a multi-threaded environment, since A68 had full
> thread support). Of course there is a followon literature, but this is
> hardly a new problem.
>And indeed the above paper cites a 1971 paper by Branquart and Lewi in
"Algol 68 Implementation".
A good, more recent, paper is
Stichnoth, Lueh, and Cierniak, "Support for Garbage Collection at Every
Instruction in a Java Compiler", PLDI '99.
Hans