Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!news.misty.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED!nerds-end From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Historical Implementations to Garbage Collectors Date: 04 May 2014 07:04:21 GMT Organization: Rob Warnock, Consulting Systems Architect Lines: 28 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <14-05-006@comp.compilers> References: <14-05-001@comp.compilers> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.iecc.com X-Trace: miucha.iecc.com 1399231763 16686 2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970 (4 May 2014 19:29:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@iecc.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 19:29:23 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: GC, history Posted-Date: 04 May 2014 15:29:23 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:1231 lpsantil@gmail.com wrote: +--------------- | 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? +--------------- Not so much "history" per se, but you might be interested in Paul Wilson's fairly comprehensive survey of GC techniques: circa 1992 [the PDFs aren't from Wilson AFAIK, but seem to be accurate AFAICT]: ftp://ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/garbage/gcsurvey.ps http://www.cs.rit.edu/~swm/cs800/gcsurvey.pdf http://www.maths.lse.ac.uk/Courses/MA407/gcsurvey.pdf This is a very expanded version of the above circa 1994: ftp://ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/garbage/bigsurv.ps http://www.cs.rit.edu/~swm/cs800/bigsurv.pdf http://www.cs.rice.edu/~javaplt/311/Readings/bigsurv.pdf -Rob ----- Rob Warnock 627 26th Avenue San Mateo, CA 94403