A Proposed New Memory Manager

Abstract

Memory managers should support compactification, multiple simultaneous garbage collections, and ephemeral collections in a realtime multi-processor shared memory environment. They should permit old addresses of an object to be invalidated without significant delay, and should permit array accesses with no per-element inefficiency. A new approach to building an optimal standard solution to these requirements is presented for stock hardware and next generation languages. If such an approach should become a standard, this would spur the development of standard hardware to optimize away the overhead.