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From: hbaker@netcom.com (Henry Baker)
Subject: Re: Garbage collection models
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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 19:30:04 GMT
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In article <Dn593I.2Fq@midway.uchicago.edu>, cdjeris@midway.uchicago.edu
(Christopher Jeris) wrote:

> My question is:  Are there models in which it makes sense to provide
> garbage collection at the level of the system rather than the process?

Yes, this was the Lisp Machine model.  As distributed object-oriented
systems become more popular, GC is going to have to become more global,
as well, so the less-sophisticated Unix model will have to be supplemented.

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