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

  • Authors:
  • Patrick Sobalvarro

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • A Lifetime-based Garbage Collector for LISP Systems on General- Purpose Computers
  • Year:
  • 1988

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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 hardware or virtual memory system support, and discuss its performance.