ImageSegments and massive GC

Allen Wirfs-Brock Allen_Wirfs-Brock at Instantiations.com
Thu Aug 23 15:44:49 UTC 2001


At 09:56 AM 8/23/2001 -0400, Stephen Pair wrote:
>Would this work?  Has it been done before?

Whenever you have a multi-region garbage collector, you have to worry about 
cross-region circularities. Generally, you have to simultaneously collect 
all regions that participate in a circularity in order to recover it. My 
first impression, is that you will have such issues with your proposal.

What you describe sounds very similar to various distributed GC 
schemes.  You are just applying them locally.  There is considerable 
published literature on distributed GC.

Allen Wirfs-Brock






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