At 04:28 PM 7/3/2001 +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote:
>By the way, the _Garbage Collection_ book is very worthy, but like
>Neitsche, "it gets a bit boring after a while." [*]
Truer words were never said. The table of contents could almost read:
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Chapter 6: Same as chapter 5, only different
Chapt
If not, I'll post the version with the edits I've got and be done with it.
Dan
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Graham Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ouch. I have quite often had applications that would use several hundred MB
> now. If I would need double that, then that is going to hurt. I am not
> familiar with copying collector GC, does anyone have a pointer to any
> papers etc.
The basic operation o
Here's a reference to the Bartlett 'mostly-copying' GC collector.
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/WRL/research-reports/WRL-TR-88.2.pdf
Hans Boehm also has a decent GC reference page with links to Bartlett's, but
his GC is mark/sweep.
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/index.html
Grant M
At 03:18 PM 7/3/2001 +0100, Graham Barr wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 10:15:02AM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
> > > "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > DS> We're going to use a copying collector. When the string gets
> > DS> copied as part of a compaction run things'll
At 10:15 AM 7/3/2001 -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
> > "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> DS> We're going to use a copying collector. When the string gets
> DS> copied as part of a compaction run things'll get cleaned up
> DS> appropriately. (Not that there's really any cle
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 10:15:02AM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
> > "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> DS> We're going to use a copying collector. When the string gets
> DS> copied as part of a compaction run things'll get cleaned up
> DS> appropriately. (Not that there's
> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DS> We're going to use a copying collector. When the string gets
DS> copied as part of a compaction run things'll get cleaned up
DS> appropriately. (Not that there's really any cleanup to do in that
DS> case) Granted the destination s
At 06:16 PM 7/2/2001 -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
> > "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> DS> At 09:07 PM 7/2/2001 +0100, Graham Barr wrote:
> >> I for one use s/^...// quite often in the knowledge that it is
> optimized to
> >> just move a pointer and not cause a copy of
