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From: Welch%OSU-20@OHIO-STATE.ARPA (Arun)
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Subject: Re: Garbage Collection
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Date: Tue, 14-Oct-86 20:02:05 EDT
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>From: garren@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM (Scott Garren)
>Date: 6 Oct 86 14:05:00 GMT
>
>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).

To pick a nit here, the Xerox machines are capable of addressing up to 32Mb.


Arun Welch
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