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[Richard Jones]

>> We could pick out, say, the ten most influential and
>> ground-breaking papers and translate them to HTML.
>
>I suggest Baker's CACM real-time GC paper (obviously).  I've also 
>found that to be the most lucid explanation of the basic copying-
>compacting collector.
>
>Boehm and Weiser's paper in conservative collection is another good 
>one, and I still recall reading about Bartlett's conservative-compacting 
>collector.
>
>That leaves seven more :-).  I'd probably pick one of the treadmill 
>papers, too.  I've got a real soft spot for Stoye's one-bit reference-counting
> 
>paper.  People are quick to discount reference-counting, but it has 
>its uses, and it doesn't hurt to point that out. 
>

Deferred reference counting is also a must have (Deutsch & Bobrow)

Generational GC (I'd suggest Ungar's paper rather than Liebermann & Hewitt)

For some applications, a compacting collector that preserves allocation order
is important, so how about a mark-compact paper? I'd suggest Jonkers rather
than Morris.

Appel-Ellis-Li for a pagewise black-only read-barrier supported by the OS.

GC for C++ is a perennial topic. I'd recommend the Ellis-Detlefs proposals as
they address the requirements well although they do not mandate an
implementation.
  

Richard Jones

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