A Reactive Approach to Comprehensive Global Garbage Detection

Comprehensive global garbage detection (GGD) in object-oriented distributed systems, i.e., GGD intrinsically able to detect distributed cycles of garbage, has mostly been addressed via graph tracing algorithms. Graph tracing algorithms must account for every live object in the system before any resource can actually be reclaimed which compromises both their scalability and robustness in a distributed environment.

Alternative non-comprehensive approaches trade-off comprehensiveness for scalab...