[LLVMdev] Garbage collection

[Jonathan Turner]

Not sure if it's the one you're referring to, but looking for the idea I found this:

http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/grr/snapshot-gc.ps

Jonathan

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> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:24:04 +0200
> From: pertti.kellomaki at tut.fi
> To: llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] Garbage collection
>
> 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.
> --
> Pertti
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