Re: Historical Implementations to Garbage Collectors

rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
04 May 2014 07:04:21 GMT

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From:	rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Newsgroups:	comp.compilers
Date:	04 May 2014 07:04:21 GMT
Organization:	Rob Warnock, Consulting Systems Architect
References:	14-05-001
Keywords:	GC, history
Posted-Date:	04 May 2014 15:29:23 EDT

lpsantil@gmail.com <lpsantil@gmail.com> wrote:
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| I'm interested in studying historical implementations of garbage
| collection in early programming languages (BASIC, Lisp, etc).
| I'm especially interested in language/runtime interface descriptions.
| Does anybody have references they can share?
+---------------

Not so much "history" per se, but you might be interested in Paul
Wilson's fairly comprehensive survey of GC techniques: circa 1992 [the
PDFs aren't from Wilson AFAIK, but seem to be accurate AFAICT]:

        ftp://ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/garbage/gcsurvey.ps
            http://www.cs.rit.edu/~swm/cs800/gcsurvey.pdf
            http://www.maths.lse.ac.uk/Courses/MA407/gcsurvey.pdf

This is a very expanded version of the above circa 1994:

        ftp://ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/garbage/bigsurv.ps
            http://www.cs.rit.edu/~swm/cs800/bigsurv.pdf
            http://www.cs.rice.edu/~javaplt/311/Readings/bigsurv.pdf

-Rob

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