In the previous chapter we looked at generational and other age-based collection schemes. Those algorithms partitioned objects by their age and chose a partition to collect based on some age-related property. For example, generational collectors preferentially collect the youngest partition (or generation). Although this strategy in particular is highly effective for a wide range of applications, it does not address all the problems facing the collector. In this chapter we examine schemes outside the age-based collection framework but still based on partitioning the heap.
We start by considering one of the commonest forms of segregation, allocating large objects in a separate space. We then examine collectors ...
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