manmem

Framework to provide managed memory in the JVM.

Roadmap

Major

• build single-threaded version with pre-emption [ok]
• make framework threadsafe [ok]
• build utilties on top of managed memory, such as sorting and maps

Minor

• add hierarchical memory managers to manage quotas of memory
• assign priorities to memory segments that will be respected in the pre-emption
• tidy up the interface of objects that clients interact with

Optional

• support memories chunks of different sizes
• let disk operators run asynchronously (for background spilling of segments, async API, use of RAID)