From: iia...@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
Subject: Garbage Collection
Date: 1995/08/23
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Before I go off and write a garbage collection routine for the unix file
descriptor passing in Linux are there any good sources of GPL/PD garbage
collectors.

Answers by email preferred

Alan
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From: m...@sanscalc.nada.kth.se (Mikael Djurfeldt)
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In article < DDrC4H....@info.swan.ac.uk> iia...@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox) 
writes:

   Before I go off and write a garbage collection routine for the unix file
   descriptor passing in Linux are there any good sources of GPL/PD garbage
   collectors.

   Answers by email preferred

Here is the location of a very good overview article:

"Uniprocessor Garbage Collection Techniques" by Paul R. Wilson
ftp://ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/garbage/bigsurv.ps

Good luck with your work!

/mdj