An Object Memory Management Prototype Based on Mark and Sweep Algorithm Using Separation of Concerns

C++ applications suffer from the lack of a garbage collector which has been acknowledged as one of their major defects. Therefore, these applications need an automatic memory management lifecycle because their memory management techniques are developed explicitly and manually. For instance, research effort has been done to improve object memory management technique, such as reference counter, incremental garbage collector, conservative garbage collector, smart pointer, and so on. These techniques have some limitations, such as amalgamated functional and technical aspects in the same object-oriented programs and its implementation has to be realized manually. Generally speaking, we propose a mechanism and develop a prototype to i) separate object lifecycle management from functional aspects and ii) implement and integrate this task automatically and implicitly. To eliminate implicitly storage management defects, our prototype is based on mark and sweep algorithm and separation of concerns approaches such as aspect-oriented programming.