Along with the success of Java, garbage collection advances to embedded and real-time systems. Our novel processor architecture lays the foundation for efficient real-time garbage collection in hardware and guarantees pointer integrity at the machine-code level.
Citation:
Matthias Meyer, "A Novel Processor Architecture with Exact Tag-Free Pointers," IEEE Micro, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 46-55, May/June 2004, doi:10.1109/MM.2004.2