Garbage Collection Algorithm

[Chris Pedley]

OK, I thought it was incremental hence the name of the source
file, but I've just seen the comment "The name is misleading".

Any idea when it will become an incremental garbage collector?

On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Godmar Back wrote:

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> I'd say it's just a hodgepodge of ideas from various sources.
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> Don't read too much into it, especially don't read too much into the 
> use of doubly-linked lists in a conservative, non-incremental, 
> non-generational, non-moving collector...
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> 	- Godmar
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> > Is the garbage collection algorithm used in kaffe based upon
> > any specific algorithm suggested in a paper or book?  In
> > gcMan() (from gc-incremental.c) one of the comments mentions
> > Boehm - is the garbage collector based on an algorithm
> > suggested in a paper written by Hans-Juergen Boehm or is
> > it just a combination of different ideas?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Chris.
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