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- From: richieb@bony1.bony.com (Richard Bielak)
- Subject: Re: Is GC needed?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.120204.23805@bony1.bony.com>
- Organization: NY NY
- References: <1992Jul8.012152.28375@clam.ssw.de> <AXEL.92Jul24154632@avalanche.cs.tu-berlin.de> <1992Jul27.074159.10951@ugle.unit.no>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 12:02:04 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul27.074159.10951@ugle.unit.no> sebra@idt.unit.no (Svein Erik Bratsberg) writes:
- >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.
- >
- >Here's an old reference:
- >
- >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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- Here is another. This paper was presented at OOPSLA '91.
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- Sharma R., Soffa M., "Parallel Generational Garbage Collection",
- Conference Proceedings OOPSLA '91, pp: 16-32.
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