1978 called, wants its garbage collectors back
1978 called, wants its garbage collectors back
Posted Sep 4, 2008 13:22 UTC (Thu) by knobunc (guest, #4678)In reply to: 1978 called, wants its garbage collectors back by i3839
Parent article: The Kernel Hacker's Bookshelf: UNIX Internals
The "What the Heck Is?" series of posts by Dan Sugalski was good:
http://www.sidhe.org/~dan/blog/archives/cat_what_the_heck...
http://www.sidhe.org/~dan/blog/archives/cat_what_the_heck...
In particular he has one about GC:
http://www.sidhe.org/~dan/blog/archives/000200.html
He was posting good overviews of CS topics so that people could work on Parrot (the proposed Perl VM).
But a more thorough review of GC technology on LWN would be appreciated!
-ben