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From: garren@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM (Scott Garren)
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Subject: Garbage Collection
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Date: Mon, 6-Oct-86 10:05:00 EDT
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Relative to discussions of garbage collectors I would like to point out
that there are issues of scale involved.  Many techniques that work
admirably on an address space limited to 8 Mbytes (Xerox hardware)
do not scale at all well to systems that support up to 1 Gbytes
(Symbolics).

Non-disclaimer: I am an employee of Symbolics and am of course
emotionally and financially involved in this issue.