[gclist] Distr. GC general discussion for FAQ (was re: Weighted RC)

[fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU]

Marc Shapiro, you wrote:
> 
> The big question is: how bad is this going to be?  Nobody has any real
> experience with distributed GC.  The only meaningful data points we have come
> from distributed files systems, which have no cycles by construction, and the
> WWW, which has a lot, but never has any garbage (any URL is a root).

I don't know about that -- if you ask me, there's a hell of a lot of
garbage on the WWW ;-)

(Sorry, I just couldn't resist.)

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