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Generation Scavenging
1984
Software engineering notes
Many interactive computing environmencs provide automatic storage reclamation and virtual memory to ease the burden of managing storage. Unfortunately, many storage reclams~tion algorithms impede interaction with distracting pauses. Generation Scavenging is a reclamation algorithm that has no noticeable pauses, eliminates page faults for transient objects, compacts objects without resorting to indirection, and reclaims circular structures, in one third the time of traditional approaches. We
doi:10.1145/390010.808261
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