A Lifetime-Based Garbage Collector for LISP Systems on General-Purpose Computers.

Abstract

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.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA290169

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  • Patrick Sobalvarro

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  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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  • Human Systems
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  • Accumulators
  • Algorithms
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  • Central Processing Units
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  • Lisp Programming Language
  • Object Code
  • Operating Systems

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