Hmmm, well, I didn't mean to imply that the GC in the article was the
*same* as that in Squeak (although how I presented it does give that
impression - sorry) -- simply that this article is a good backgrounder
for understanding the GC in Squeak (and it's handy online).

-- Dwight

Henrik Gedenryd wrote:
> 
> 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