Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED!nerds-end From: "Robin Vowels" Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Historical Implementations to Garbage Collectors Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 19:06:31 +1000 Organization: Compilers Central Lines: 17 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <14-05-009@comp.compilers> References: <14-05-001@comp.compilers> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.iecc.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: miucha.iecc.com 1399232041 17986 2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970 (4 May 2014 19:34:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@iecc.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 19:34:01 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: GC, history Posted-Date: 04 May 2014 15:34:00 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:1234 : 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? McKeeman, Horning, and Wortman's XPL compiler used garbage collection for strings on S/360. Collection was automatic and invisible to the user. No tags were needed. See "A Compiler Generator", McKeeman, Horning, and Wortman. -- This email is full of viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is overrated. http://www.avast.com