Memory Pool System

• Guide
  • 1. Overview of the Memory Pool System
  • 2. Building the Memory Pool System
  • 3. Garbage collecting a language with the Memory Pool System
  • 4. The stretchy vector problem
  • 5. Debugging with the Memory Pool System
  • 6. Tuning the Memory Pool System for performance
  • 7. Advanced topics
• Reference
  • 1. Interface conventions
  • 2. Keyword arguments
  • 3. Error handing
  • 4. Arenas
  • 5. Pools
  • 6. Allocation
  • 7. Object formats
  • 8. Scanning
  • 9. Threads
  • 10. Roots
  • 11. Garbage collection
  • 12. Messages
  • 13. Finalization
  • 14. Location dependency
  • 15. Segregated allocation caches
  • 16. Allocation patterns
  • 17. Allocation frames
  • 18. Debugging pools
  • 19. Telemetry
  • 20. Weak references
  • 21. Plinth
  • 22. Platforms
• Pool reference
  • 1. Choosing a pool class
  • 2. Pool class properties
  • 3. Writing a new pool class
  • 4. AMC (Automatic Mostly-Copying)
  • 5. AMCZ (Automatic Mostly-Copying Zero-rank)
  • 6. AMS (Automatic Mark and Sweep)
  • 7. AWL (Automatic Weak Linked)
  • 8. LO (Leaf Object)
  • 9. MFS (Manual Fixed Small)
  • 10. MV (Manual Variable)
  • 11. MVFF (Manual Variable First Fit)
  • 12. MVT (Manual Variable Temporal)
  • 13. SNC (Stack No Checking)
• Design
  • 1. Fixed-length queues
  • 2. Coalescing block structures
  • 3. MPS Configuration
  • 4. The critical path through the MPS
  • 5. Fail-over allocator
  • 6. Free list allocator
  • 7. Transliterating the alphabet into hexadecimal
  • 8. C Style – formatting
  • 9. C interface design
  • 10. Keyword arguments in the MPS
  • 11. Lands
  • 12. Nailboards for ambiguously referenced segments
  • 13. Ranges of addresses
  • 14. Ring data structure
  • 15. Signatures in the MPS
  • 16. Splay trees
  • 17. General MPS types
• Old design
  • 1. Allocation frame protocol
  • 2. Arena
  • 3. Virtual Memory Arena
  • 4. Bit tables
  • 5. Allocation buffers and allocation points
  • 6. Checking
  • 7. Pool class interface
  • 8. Collection framework
  • 9. Diagnostic feedback
  • 10. Finalization
  • 11. The generic fix function
  • 12. I/O subsystem
  • 13. Library interface
  • 14. The lock module
  • 15. MPS Configuration
  • 16. Client message protocol
  • 17. GC messages
  • 18. Debugging features for client objects
  • 19. Pool and pool class mechanisms
  • 20. AMC pool class
  • 21. AMS pool class
  • 22. AWL pool class
  • 23. LO pool class
  • 24. MFS pool class
  • 25. MRG pool class
  • 26. MV pool class
  • 27. Manual Variable Temporal (MVT) pool design
  • 28. MVFF pool class
  • 29. The protection module
  • 30. ANSI implementation of protection module
  • 31. Linux implementation of protection module
  • 32. SunOS 4 protection module
  • 33. Protocol inheritance
  • 34. POSIX thread extensions
  • 35. The low-memory reservoir
  • 36. Root manager
  • 37. The generic scanner
  • 38. Segment data structure
  • 39. Shield
  • 40. Stack scanner for Digital Unix on Alpha
  • 41. MPS Strategy
  • 42. Telemetry
  • 43. Tests
  • 44. Thread Manager
  • 45. Thread safety in the MPS
  • 46. Tracer
  • 47. Library version mechanism
  • 48. Software versions
  • 49. Virtual mapping
  • 50. ANSI fake VM
  • 51. VM for Digital Unix
  • 52. VM for Solaris
  • 53. The WriteF function

Appendices

• Bibliography
• Memory Management Glossary
• Memory Pool System Kit Open Source License
• Contact us
• Release notes

• Index