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From: rvill@netcom.com (Richard Villanueva)
Subject: Re: Why garbage collection?
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Erik Naggum (erik@naggum.no) wrote:

: there is no "long pause" in modern systems.  numerous brilliant minds have
: worked on garbage collection for many years.  that is nearly a guarantee
: that you will need to have in-depth knowledge of the prior art in garbage
: collection techniques to be able to provide useful suggestions.

I realize how unlikely it is that I would break new ground on the subject.
Hence my puzzlement.  A friend of mine who has worked in support of AI
researchers for many years told me that garbage collection was one of the
obstacles that was hindering the acceptance of Lisp.  This got me wondering.
I take it that he must be ill-informed.

: I have misplaced the address of the mother of all sites on garbage
: collection, but there is one that has an excellent survey, and there are
: many papers available.

Someone else provided the site info.  I'll FTP it.

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