[gclist] Collecting distributed cyclic garbage.

[Giuliano Carlini]

You wrote: 
>This is essentially a restatement of the algorithm I presented at IWMM
>'95 last September.  The paper, "Garbage Collection on an Open
>Network", is in LNCS 986 or is accessible from my Web page (and in my
>Disseration).  For independent work, you've done a good job.  Sorry -
>I always hate being scooped.

Matthew,

It would have been nice to have published this first. Thanks for the 
kindness in your reply. But, I'm not really an academic. My motivation 
for working on this was not so much to publish it as to use it. 
Collecting distributed cycles is essential for a practical distributed 
programming. So, in one way I'm grateful that you beat me to it. It 
means that I can skip the research and proceed on to design and 
implementation. I definitely expect to contact you about this off-line.

Thanks,

g