Optimal heap limits for reducing browser memory use

Garbage-collected language runtimes carefully tune heap limits to reduce garbage collection time and memory usage. However, there's a trade-off: a lower heap limit reduces memory use but increases garbage collection time. Classic methods for setting heap limits include manually tuned heap limit...

Full description

Bibliographic Details

Published in:	Proceedings of ACM on programming languages Vol. 6; no. OOPSLA2; pp. 986 - 1006
Main Authors:	Kirisame, Marisa, Shenoy, Pranav, Panchekha, Pavel
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY, USA ACM 31.10.2022
Subjects:	Browsers Information systems Runtime environments Software and its engineering memory management web browser garbage collection JavaScript heap limit
ISSN:	2475-1421, 2475-1421
Online Access:	Get full text
Tags:	Add Tag No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!