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Subject: Reference Counts
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Date: Tue, 13-Oct-87 14:53:00 EDT
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	I am looking for papers on the use of reference counts for
garbage collection. 
	I have Spector's paper (1982)  in which he shows how the concept of 
defining reference can be used to manage the deallocation of reentrant objects 
too.
	The only other similar reference I have found is a paper by 
J. Dana Eckart.
	Any other recent papers ?

Aloke Gupta
CSL Univ of Ill at Urbana-Champaign

Ref:  - J.D. Eckart and R.J. LeBlanc, "Distributed Garbage Collection in 
	distributed systems", Procedings of the SIGPLAN '87 Symposium on 
	Interpretors and Interpretive Techniques , June 1987

      - David Spector, "Minimal Overhead Garbae Collection of Complex List 
	Structures", ACM SIGPLAN Notices,vol. 17, No.3, pp. 80-82, March 1982