Garbage collecting the Internet
Saleh El-Yakub Abdullahi, Graem A. Ringwood · ACM Computing Surveys · 1998
Internet programming languages such as Java present new challenges to garbage-collection design. The spectrum of garbage-collection schema for linked structures distributed over a network are reviewed here. Distributed garbage collectors are classified first because they evolved from single-address-space collectors. This taxonomy is used as a framework to explore distribution issues: locality of action, communication overhead and indeterministic communication latency.