Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!backlog3.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED!nerds-end From: "lpsantil@gmail.com" Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Historical Implementations to Garbage Collectors Date: Sat, 3 May 2014 16:02:42 -0400 (EDT) Organization: Compilers Central Lines: 10 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <14-05-001@comp.compilers> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.iecc.com Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: miucha.iecc.com 1399147362 45149 2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970 (3 May 2014 20:02:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@iecc.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 May 2014 20:02:42 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: GC, history, comment Posted-Date: 03 May 2014 16:02:42 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com X-Original-Bytes: 1505 Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:1226 I'm interested in studying historical implementations of garbage collection in early programming languages (BASIC, Lisp, etc). I'm especially interested in language/runtime interface descriptions. Does anybody have references they can share? [My LISP 1.5 manual says they used a straightforward mark and sweep GC. The only complication was that list storage cells had a free bit they could use for marking, while cells used for strings didn't so it was a separate area and they used a separate bitmap. I'm fairly sure that early Dartmouth BASIC was all static allocated, no GC. -John]