[gclist] On the Notion of Implementation

[Francois-Rene Rideau]

Dear GC people,
   I've recently written a draft paper on the notion of implementation,
as illustrated with concurrent garbage collection.

The paper develops a very general notion of implementation,
and studies properties associated to implementations,
particularly a property of "soundness".
It takes concurrent GC as a general illustration,
so I thought it might be useful to those of you interested in formal proofs
(or informal ones! -- the ones you do to convince yourself) of
the correctness of a garbage collected programming language implementation.

I've submitted an earlier version to POPL'00,
I don't expect it to be accepted, because of its shortcomings
(section 5 is particularly weak).
I offer it to you for review and criticism.

The paper is named implement1 under
	http://www.tunes.org/~fare/tmp/

Sorry if this announce is inappropriate.

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