Strategies for Distributed Garbage Collection

The design of garbage collectors must trade programming simplicity with features as:

Reference counting

Weighted reference count

Advantage: less network traffic.

Disadvantages:

Indirect Reference Count (Piquer)

Advantages:

Disadvantages:

Reference Sets (Shapiro)

Advantage: fault tolerant.

Birrels Garbage Collector

Disadvantage:

Distributed Mark & Sweep

Conclusions