@InProceedings{parallel-gc-08,
   author = {Simon Marlow and Tim Harris and Roshan P. James and Simon {Peyton Jones}},
   title = {Parallel Generational-Copying Garbage Collection with a Block-Structured Heap},
   booktitle = {ISMM '08: Proceedings of the 7th international symposium on Memory management},
   year = {2008},
   month = {June},
   abstract = {We present a parallel generational-copying garbage collector
implemented for the Glasgow Haskell Compiler.  We use a
block-structured memory allocator, which provides a natural
granularity for dividing the work of GC between many threads, leading
to a simple yet effective method for parallelising copying GC.  The
results are encouraging: we demonstrate wall-clock speedups of on
average a factor of 2 in GC time on a commodity 4-core machine with no
programmer intervention, compared to our best sequential GC.
},
   url = {http://www.haskell.org/~simonmar/papers/parallel-gc.pdf},
   location = {{Tucson, Arizona}},
   publisher = {ACM}
}