Should we be collecting garbage?

Garbage Collection Should Be Lifetime Aware

We argue that garbage collection should be more closely tied to object demographics. We show that this behaviour is sufficiently distinctive to make exploitation feasible and describe a novel GC framework that exploits object lifetime analysis yet tolerates imprecision. We argue for future collectors based on combinations of approximate analyses and dynamic sampling.

Should we all be vegetarians?

Garbage Collecting Persistent Object Stores

Many techniques have been devised for garbage collecting main memory heaps for programming languages, and there has more recently been progress on distributed garbage collection, for sets of long-lived processes in distributed systems. Little attention has been paid to garbage collecting large persistent stores, however. A persistent store is essentially a shared heap that outlives the executio...

Quantum networks: where should we be heading?

Quantumkey distribution network has become a reality in practical environment. Quantum repeaters have been explored in various physical systems and their combinations. For practical use of them, these newparadigmsmust be combinedwith existing or emerging infrastructures of communication and security systems. In this article, we discussed howquantumnetwork can be combinedwith modern cryptographi...

ExNOTic: Should We Be Keeping Exotic Pets?

There has been a recent trend towards keeping non-traditional companion animals, also known as exotic pets. These pets include parrots, reptiles, amphibians and rabbits, as well as small species of rodent such as degus and guinea pigs. Many of these exotic pet species are not domesticated, and often have special requirements in captivity, which many owners do not have the facilities or knowledg...