Where to start learning Interpreter?

Henrik Gedenryd Henrik.Gedenryd at lucs.lu.se
Tue May 23 06:55:09 UTC 2000


Dwight Hughes wrote:

> For the generational GC used in Squeak, take a look at "A Real Time
> Garbage Collector Based On The Lifetimes of Objects" by Henry Lieberman
> and Carl Hewitt,Communications of the ACM, June 1983:
> http://lieber.www.media.mit.edu/people/lieber/Lieberary/GC/GC.html

Forgive my ignorance on this, but I've happily been available to avoid
getting to know GC up close: How is the GC of the above article different
from Ungar's generational scavenger? And assuming that Squeak uses the above
algorithm, why doesn't it use scavenging?

Henrik






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