petdance/scratch — Issue #218: [RFC]: Realtime garbage collector for RTEMS
Author: petdance
Created: 2011-11-01 04:25:18+00:00
State: open

Parrot works on RTEMS. I am not sure how our garbage collector
interacts with the real-time-ness of RTEMS, though. It probably needs to be
shut off currently (parrot -G), to retain realtime characteristics. I have been
doing research on realtime gc algorithms, there are a few implemented
on the JVM, JeRTY VM and Jikes RVM. The "Tortured History
of Real-Time Garbage Collectors" also seems like an interesting read.

http://leto.net/dukeleto.pl/2009/11/realtime-embedded-parrots.html

http://developers.sun.com/learning/javaoneonline/2007/pdf/TS-2901.pdf

http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/ISORC.2005.45

http://www.research.ibm.com/people/d/dfb/papers/Bacon03Realtime.pdf

http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~mdeters/doc/slides/rtgc-history.pdf

Any changes to the GC API should take into account that a realtime GC algorithm should be possible.