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Garbage collection and MM

Garbage collection and MM

Posted Mar 8, 2007 16:32 UTC (Thu) by aanno (subscriber, #6082)
In reply to: Garbage collection and MM by pflugstad
Parent article: Short topics in memory management

Right. I oversimplified this. Generational/compacting collectors have no walker but (a) have a second indirection (that slows down things) and (b) are not memory efficient (as they roughly use twice the space that is theoretically needed). Certainly Hertz compares his GC against this type. Refer to the paper to get all the details.


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