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From: bill@ibmpcug.co.uk (Bill Birch)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,connect.audit
Subject: Incremental GC -- Reference Counting
Summary: GC by reference counting, papers..
Keywords: GC, opportunistic, incremental, responsiveness, efficiency
Message-ID: <1989Nov29.150245.11020@ibmpcug.co.uk>
Date: 29 Nov 89 15:02:45 GMT
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
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Sirs,
	Your discussion of incremental garbage collection interested me. I
have implemented a LISP interpreter which uses "erasure by reference-counting"
instead of garbage collection. I use this in conjunction with MIDI, because
I can get reliable response times from LISP. In doing this I have tried
to collect as many papers about reference-counting LISP systems as possible.
Unfortunately the trail of papers has gone cold, it seems reference-counting
was discarded as early as 1958.

Does anyone have references to papers describing reference-counting? I would
be grateful for some help on this one.

Thanks in advance,
		Bill Birch

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