Research in Larceny

Publications

• Lars Thomas Hansen, The Impact of Programming Style on the Performance of Scheme Programs. M.S. thesis, University of Oregon Department of Computer and Information Science, August 1992.
• William D Clinger and Lars Thomas Hansen. Lambda, the ultimate label, or a simple optimizing compiler for Scheme. In the Proceedings of the 1994 ACM conference on LISP and Functional Programming, SIGPLAN Lisp Pointers 7(3) (July-September 1994), pages 128-139.
• William D Clinger and Lars T Hansen, Generational garbage collection and the radioactive decay model. Proceedings of the 1997 ACM Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation.
• William D Clinger, Anne H Hartheimer, and Eric M Ost. Implementation strategies for first-class continuations. In Journal of Higher Order and Symbolic Computation, 12(1), 1999, pages 7-45. (Click on Volume 11, Number 1 to navigate to the web page that contains a link to the PDF.)
• Lars T Hansen. Older-first garbage collection in practice. PhD dissertation, Northeastern University, November 2000.
• Lars T Hansen and William D Clinger. An experimental study of renewal-older-first garbage collection. Proceedings of the 2002 ACM International Conference on Functional Programming, October 2002.
• William D Clinger. Common Larceny. In the Proceedings of the 2005 International Lisp Conference, June 2005, pages 101-107. The slides from the presentation are also online.
• William D Clinger and Fabio V Rojas. Linear combinations of radioactive decay models for generational garbage collection. In Science of Computer Programming, Volume 62, Issue 2, 1 October 2006, pages 184-203.
• William D Clinger. Rapid case dispatch in Scheme. In the Proceedings of the 2006 Scheme and Functional Programming Workshop, University of Chicago TR-2006-06, September 2006, pages 63-69.
• William D Clinger and Felix S Klock II. Scalable garbage collection with guaranteed MMU. In the Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Scheme and Functional Programming, Northeastern University, 22 August 2009, pages 14-25.
• Felix S Klock II. Scalable Garbage Collection via Remembered Set Summarization and Refinement. PhD dissertation, Northeastern University, January 2011.
• Felix S Klock II and William D Clinger. Bounded-latency regional garbage collection. Proceedings of the 2011 Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS 2011), 24 October 2011, pages 73-83. (Preprint and slides from the presentation.)