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From: daniel@terra.ucsc.edu (Daniel Edelson)
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Subject: Re: GC references wanted
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Date: 27 May 91 00:09:29 GMT
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In article <3091@cod.NOSC.MIL> ggreen@cod.NOSC.MIL (George W. Green) writes:
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>Can someone point me to any papers or books on garbage
>collecting, and implementations in C++?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>George Green,  ggreen@nosc.mil

Two approaches are discussed in the most recent Usenix C++ conference
proceedings. One uses smart pointers and one eschews smart pointers
in favor of lighter-weight encapsulated pointers that maintain
reference counts. For a copy call the Usenix Association in Berkeley, 
Calif.

Bartlett has a collector that he has made available over anonymous ftp.
I'm not sure what machine it can be obtained from.

Also Boehm has a collector that has been made available.
I also am not sure where to get that.
Would someone care to post that information?

If there are other general, purpose collectors for C++
for which information is available, I would very much like
to hear about them.

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