[LLVMdev] Garbage collection

[Pertti Kellomäki]

Ralf Schneider wrote:
> A little bit off topic: Has anybody tried building a concurrent GC - 
> running in a different _process_, instead of a thread?
> The idea: To perform a collection you do a fork(). The child process 
> collects all unreferenced memory regions and reports them back to the 
> parent process.

I remember reading a paper in ACM Sigplan Notices (I think)
many years back, describing exactly such a system.
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Pertti