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- From: hudson@cs.umass.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.compilers
- Subject: Re: Adding garbage collection to C++
- Keywords: parallel, GC, bibliography
- Message-ID: <92-08-094@comp.compilers>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 15:07:38 GMT
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- bill@amber.ssd.csd.harris.com (Bill Leonard) writes:
- >[Garbage collection across multiple processes is hard ...]
-
- pardo@cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) lists a lot of good references, but
- left out an earlier reference which suggested solutions to a lot of these
- problems a long time ago. It's a good read.
-
- @PHDTHESIS{Bis77,
- AUTHOR = "Peter B. Bishop",
- TITLE = "Computer Systems with a Very Large Address Space and
- Garbage Collection",
- SCHOOL = "Massachusetts Institute of Technology",
- YEAR = 1977,
- MONTH = may,
- ADDRESS = "Cambridge, MA"
- }
-
- Basically Bishop (in 1977) said that if one thread finds an object in its
- data space ("area") that is only reachable by another thread then that
- object is migrated to the other thread's area.
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