Re: Looking for a garbage collection paper

On 2022-09-20 09:29, Spiros Bousbouras wrote:
> The book "Garbage collection: algorithms for automatic dynamic memory
> management" by Jones and Lins starts describing on page 197 a concurrent
> garbage collection algorithm by Leslie Lamport and concludes on page 198 with
> : "This colour change is done in a single instruction by an ingenious
> reinterpretation of colour values by incrementing the value of a base colour
> modulo 3: interested readers should consult [Lamport, 1976] for more
> details."
>
> Ok ; if it's ingenious , I want to read it. The reference is
>
> Leslie Lamport
> Garbage Collection with Multiple Processes: an Exercise in Parallelism
> Proceedings of the 1976 International Conference on Parallel Processing,
> T. Feng, ed., 50-54.
>
> I did a bit of googling , arrived at
> http://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/pubs.html and it says "No electronic
> version available". The entry on the page for the above paper references
> "On-the-fly Garbage Collection: an Exercise in Cooperation" and I have
> downloaded that but ideally I would also like to see the above paper. ...


Looks nothing more than what I'm doing in my various tools to convert legacy
languages source to html to colour nested parentheses, in essence:


colour[0] = 'red'
colour[1] = 'blue'
colour[2] = 'green'


cur_col = 0


and for the next colour: cur_col = (cur_col + 1) mod 3


Sources available @ <https://prino.neocities.org/zOS/zOS-Tools.html>


Robert
--
Robert AH Prins
robert(a)prino(d)org
The hitchhiking grandfather - https://prino.neocities.org/
[Sounds right. Keep in mind that this paper is from almost 50 years
ago, and the comments on the web site said it was trivial, written for
a conference where you needed to submit a paper to go, then he went
and decided it wasn't worth it. -John]

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