Re: Historical Implementations to Garbage Collectors

"Robin Vowels" <robin51@dodo.com.au>
Sun, 4 May 2014 19:06:31 +1000

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From: "Robin Vowels" <robin51@dodo.com.au>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 19:06:31 +1000
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 14-05-001
Keywords: GC, history
Posted-Date: 04 May 2014 15:34:00 EDT

: <lpsantil@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?


McKeeman, Horning, and Wortman's XPL compiler used garbage
collection for strings on S/360. Collection was automatic
and invisible to the user.


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See "A Compiler Generator", McKeeman, Horning, and Wortman.
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