[gclist] Name that hypothesis

[Nick Barnes]

> This is not a win, but a loss.  With the radioactive decay
> model, and a conventional generational collector, the youngest
> generation(s) will usually contain the lowest percentage of
> garbage.  This is the opposite of the situation that conventional
> generational collectors are designed to exploit.  By concentrating
> its effort on the generations that contains the least garbage, the
> collector reclaims the least storage for the most effort, resulting
> in a higher amortized gc overhead than would be obtained by a
> simple non-generational collector.
> 
> The fact that a generational collector can go wrong, even when
> it is impossible to predict individual lifetimes at a level
> worse than chance, helps to show why a different generational
> collector can go right without even trying to predict object
> lifetimes.

Are you able to say more? You plainly have a "different generational
collector", and a model to go with it. Can you tell us about them?

Nick B