Design and Performance Evaluation of Hardware-Assisted Memory Allocator

• Main Authors: Hsiu-Shu Lin, 林秀書
• Other Authors: Fu-Chiung Cheng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/28281657588288243494

碩士 === 大同大學 === 資訊工程學系(所) === 97 === Modern programming languages such as Java and C++ highly demand efficient dynamic memory management to allocate and deallocate blocks of memory frequently. Furthermore, the density of logic on a chip is increasing dramatically every year. Therefore, it is common to translate software to hardware to speed up the execution time and reduce power consumption. Many researchers proposed hardware-assisted memory allocators to address dynamic memory management. However, None of those work addresses both the size blind spot and boundary blind spot problems. We propose a new hardware-assisted memory allocator to address the above two problems and evaluate the performance with SPECjvm98. The experimental results indicated that our hardware-assisted memory allocator effectively improving the memory utilization.