Idle-Time Garbage-Collection Scheduling.

The article provides information on an approach used by the programming language JavaScript engine V8 in the Chrome internet browser to schedule garbage-collection pauses when Chrome is idle. It details how this approach can reduce user-visable dropped frames, or jank, on real-world websites and res...

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Publicado en:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 59; no. 10; pp. 34 - 40
Autores principales:	DEGENBAEV, ULAN, EISINGER, JOCHEN, ERNST, MANFRED, MCILROY, ROSS, PAYER, HANNES
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Association for Computing Machinery Oct2016
Materias:	Google Chrome (Computer software) JavaScript programming language Frames (Computer science) Computer storage capacity Internet users
Acceso en línea:	Ver este registro en EBSCOhost

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Sumario:	The article provides information on an approach used by the programming language JavaScript engine V8 in the Chrome internet browser to schedule garbage-collection pauses when Chrome is idle. It details how this approach can reduce user-visable dropped frames, or jank, on real-world websites and result in fewer dropped frames and memory consumption.