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From: dkuhlman@netcom.com (G. David Kuhlman)
Subject: Re: Generational GC
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Mark Grosberg (markg@athens.emi.net) wrote:
: Does anybody have any code or can explain how generational GC works and 
: how efficient are the various methods of GC. For virtual machines, not 
: actual assembly/C code.

: Thanks.
: Mark G.
:   - New to Garbage collection, and FTPing away.

The implementation of Elk contains a file heap-gen.c which 
porports to implement generational GC.

You can get Elk at:

ftp.cs.indiana.edu:/pub/scheme-repository/imp/

Also see the Scheme faq about Elk.

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