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From: kevin@argosy.UUCP (Kevin S. Van Horn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Garbage collection algorithms
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Date: 20 Jan 90 07:49:37 GMT
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Reply-To: kevin@argosy.maspar.com (Kevin S. Van Horn)
Organization: MasPar Computer Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA
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Can someone recommend a book that gives a good treatment of garbage collection
algorithms?  In particular, I am interested in finding a good garbage
collecting algorithm to be implemented on a PC (hence no virtual memory),
which must handle variable-sized cells and do compaction when needed.

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