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From: "T. Kurt Bond" <tkb@tkb.mpl.com>
To: Andreas Rossberg <rossberg@ps.uni-sb.de>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: AW: [Caml-list] The tag bit
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 10:32:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16668.53521.633388.479965@tkb.mpl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <411CC109.6050105@ps.uni-sb.de>

Andreas Rossberg writes:
> AFAIK, a conservative collector is not allowed to move anything. Hence 
> it is inherently incompatible with compacting and generational GC, like 
> used in OCaml (and highly desirable).

Joel F. Bartlett's 1988 paper "Compacting garbage collection with
ambiguous roots" describes a conservative "mostly copying" compacting
GC scheme; his 1989 paper "Mostly-Copying Garbage Collection Picks Up
Generations and C++" descibes a generation variation.  Frederick Smith
and Greg Morrisett's 1997 paper "Mostly-Copying Collection: A Viable
Alternative to Conservative Mark-Sweep" describes an improved variant
that they compared with the BDW by using both with the TIL/C ML
compiler.  Giuseppe Attardi, Tito Flagella, and Pietro Iglio describe
a GC in their 1998 paper "A Customisable Memory Management Framework
for C++" that uses mostly copying GC for the default heap.

-- 
T. Kurt Bond, tkb@tkb.mpl.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-13 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-12 15:22 Bauer, Christoph
2004-08-13  3:53 ` Jacques Garrigue
2004-08-13 12:58   ` Christophe Raffalli
2004-08-13 13:14     ` [Caml-list] Other GC in ML family ? Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2004-08-13 13:24     ` AW: [Caml-list] The tag bit Andreas Rossberg
2004-08-13 14:32       ` T. Kurt Bond [this message]
2004-08-13 14:41         ` AW: [Caml-list] Conservative GC T. Kurt Bond
2004-08-13 16:14         ` AW: [Caml-list] The tag bit Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2004-08-13 14:28     ` skaller
2004-08-13 15:44       ` Christophe Raffalli
2004-08-13 15:40     ` Brian Hurt
2004-08-13 13:43 Ennals, Robert
2004-08-13 14:58 Ennals, Robert

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