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From: jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: Garbage collection -- difficulty, cost, generality
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Date: 15 Mar 90 12:34:52 GMT
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aarons@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Aaron Sloman) wrote:
> wilson@carcoar.Stanford.EDU (Paul Wilson) writes:
>> Don't expect a fast language on stock hardware to have gc speed costs of
>> less than about 10% on average.

> [Poplog] varied between 1.5% and 3.2%.

PS-algol uses about 2.9% according to some measurements done a couple of
years ago.

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