On 12/30/05, Marc Feeley feeley@iro.umontreal.ca wrote:
Unfortunately the incremental collector described in the ISMM98 paper has suffered from bit-rot, and is not distributed with Gambit. I may resurect the code if there is sufficient interest in this (I know some people are interested in developing video-games with Gambit, and an incremental GC would be very useful for this).
For anyone who is interested in modern GC research: I found [1] to be very enjoyable. [1] http://www.uwtv.org/programs/displayevent.asp?rid=2168 (it's a video, but serves as an introduction to the papers).
I spent an hour of so bumbling through the Gambit code last night and it's pretty tough going. This is, of course, because Gambit is a lot more involved than many programs. But a document in the tradition of the HACKING files which can sometimes be found would be very useful. Maybe then researchers will improve your GC for you, rather than hacking yet another JVM :)
AGL
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