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- From: sebra@idt.unit.no (Svein Erik Bratsberg)
- Newsgroups: comp.object
- Subject: Re: Is GC needed?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.074159.10951@ugle.unit.no>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 07:41:59 GMT
- References: <DJOHNSON.92Jul6152406@mycroft.ti.com> <1992Jul8.012152.28375@clam.ssw.de> <AXEL.92Jul24154632@avalanche.cs.tu-berlin.de>
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- Reply-To: sebra@idt.unit.no (Svein Erik Bratsberg)
- Organization: Div. of CS & Telematics, Norwegian Institute of Technology
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- In article <AXEL.92Jul24154632@avalanche.cs.tu-berlin.de>, axel@cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Mahler) writes:
- |> Have there been any attempts to employ multi-processor shared-memory
- |> computer architectures for solving the GC problem ? Why not have a
- |> dedicated GC processor that frees the application from worrying about
- |> memory management ? I've not given the idea a great deal of thought, so
- |> it might actually be stupid or unfeasible. Comments ?
- |>
- |> Axel.
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- Here's an old reference:
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- Guy L. Steele Jr., "Multiprocessing Compactifying Garbage Collection",
- Communications of the ACM, 18(9), Sept. 1975, Pages 495--508.
- 1975 ACM Student Award, Paper: First Place.
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- Svein Erik Bratsberg,
- Division of Computer Systems and Telematics,
- The Norwegian Institute of Technology, N-7034 Trondheim, Norway.
- E-mail: sebra@idt.unit.no (internet)
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