RT Journal Article T1 Adaptive tuning of reserved space in an appel collector A1 Velasco Cabo, José Manuel A1 Olcoz Herrero, Katzalin A1 Tirado Fernández, José Francisco AB The use of automatic memory management in object-oriented languages like Java is becoming widely accepted because of its software engineering benefits, its reduction of programming time and its safety aspects. Nevertheless, the complexity of garbage collection results in an important time cost for the virtual machine’s job. Until now, garbage collection strategies have focused on analyzing and adjusting regions in the heap based on different approaches and algorithms. Each strategy has its own distinct advantages over the others depending on the data behavior of a specific application, but none succeeds in taking advantage of all available resources for all application behaviors. In this paper, we present and evaluate two adaptive strategies based on data lifetime that reallocate at run time the reserved space in the nursery of generational Appel collectors. The adaptive tuning of reserved space produces a drastic reduction in the number of collections and the total collection time, and has a clear effect on the final execution time. PB Springer YR 2004 FD 2004 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/117380 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/117380 LA eng NO Velasco, J.M., Olcoz, K., Tirado, F. (2004). Adaptive Tuning of Reserved Space in an Appel Collector. In: Odersky, M. (eds) ECOOP 2004 – Object-Oriented Programming. ECOOP 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3086. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24851-4_25 NO Gobierno de España DS Docta Complutense RD 7 jun 2025