Garbage Collectors (GCs) are responsible for allocating and deallocating objects making sure the running application run as smoothly as possible. There are many types of GC configurations out there, mark sweep, generational, region based, concurrent, parallel, reference counting [1] and a combination of these. The way we represent objects in each of these configurations, also…
What are arraylets? When an array or any object is created in a Java program, one of the places the Garbage Collector (GC) stores objects is in the heap. Individual objects are stored in a contiguous block of memory, which makes it easier to reference them. Arrays as such are also stored in a contiguous…
Continuing my team’s work from the 2018 Extreme Blue (EB) term, I spent the first two weeks of my co-op wrapping up our JITaaS project so that it could be merged. During EB, my team was responsible for implementing a prototype for JITaaS (Just in Time Compiler as a Service). Runtimes are comprised of various…
