Publications

• Mark-Scavenge: Waiting for Trash to Take Itself Out. Jonas Norlinder, Erik Österlund, David Black-Schaffer, Tobias Wrigstad. (OOPSLA’24). https://doi.org/10.1145/3689791

  Introduced a novel “lazy relocation” algorithm for ZGC that reduces dead object copying by up to 91%.

• Mutator-Driven Object Placement using Load Barriers. Jonas Norlinder, Albert Mingkun Yang, David Black-Schaffer, Tobias Wrigstad. (MPLR’24). https://doi.org/10.1145/3679007.3685060

  Leveraged ZGC load barriers to optimize heap layout and improve CPU cache utilization.

• Compressed Forwarding Tables Reconsidered. Jonas Norlinder, Erik Österlund, and Tobias Wrigstad. (MPLR ’22). https://doi.org/10.1145/3546918.3546928

  Prototyped a compact metadata representation with a strict 3.14% overhead guarantee.

Awards

• ECOOP’22 Distinguished Artifact Reviewer
• PLDI 2020 Student Research Competition for compact forwarding tables (3rd prize)

Community Service

• Community Review – Recognized in “Work Packets: A New Abstraction for GC Software Engineering, Optimization, and Innovation” (W. Zhao, S. M. Blackburn, K. S. McKinley, OOPSLA ’25), “Advancing Performance via a Systematic Application of Research and Industrial Best Practice” (W. Zhao, S. M. Blackburn, K. S. McKinley, et al., OOPSLA ’25).
• Artifact Evaluation Committee – OOPSLA 2024, PLDI 2023, ECOOP 2022
• Workshop Organizer – MoreVMs 2024