A Lifetime-based Garbage Collector for LISP Systems on General-Purpose Computers
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Sobalvarro, Patrick
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Garbage collector performance in LISP systems on custom hardware has been substantially improved by the adoption of lifetime-based garbage collection techniques. To date, however, successful lifetime-based garbage collectors have required special-purpose hardware, or at least privileged access to data structures maintained by the virtual memory system. I present here a lifetime-based garbage collector requiring no special-purpose hardware or virtual memory system support, and discuss its performance.
Date issued
1988-02-01Other identifiers
AITR-1417
Series/Report no.
AITR-1417
Keywords
garbage collection, dynamic storage allocation, slifetime-based garbage collection, LISP, storage reclamation