Guide

• 1. Overview of the Memory Pool System
  • 1.1. Supported target platforms
  • 1.2. Technical introduction
  • 1.3. What next?
• 2. Building the Memory Pool System
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. Getting hold of the MPS Kit
  • 2.3. Compiling the MPS for your project
    • 2.3.1. Compiling for production
    • 2.3.2. Compiling for debugging
    • 2.3.3. Optimizing for your object format
    • 2.3.4. Compiling without the C library
  • 2.4. Building the MPS for development
    • 2.4.1. Prerequisites
    • 2.4.2. Platforms
    • 2.4.3. Running make
  • 2.5. Installing the Memory Pool System
    • 2.5.1. mpseventsql
• 3. Garbage collecting a language with the Memory Pool System
  • 3.1. The Scheme interpreter
  • 3.2. Choosing an arena class
  • 3.3. Choosing a pool class
  • 3.4. Describing your objects
    • 3.4.1. The scan method
    • 3.4.2. The skip method
    • 3.4.3. The forward method
    • 3.4.4. The is-forwarded method
    • 3.4.5. The padding method
  • 3.5. Creating the pool
  • 3.6. Roots
  • 3.7. Threads
  • 3.8. Allocation
  • 3.9. Maintaining consistency
  • 3.10. Tidying up
  • 3.11. What next?
• 4. The stretchy vector problem
• 5. Debugging with the Memory Pool System
  • 5.1. General debugging advice
  • 5.2. Address space layout randomization
  • 5.3. Example: underscanning
  • 5.4. Example: allocating with wrong size
  • 5.5. What next?
• 6. Tuning the Memory Pool System for performance
• 7. Advanced topics
  • 7.1. Finalization
  • 7.2. Location dependency
  • 7.3. Weak hash tables
  • 7.4. Global symbol table
  • 7.5. Segregation of objects