[gclist] Root identity algorithms

[Charles Fiterman]

Instead of keeping a mark bit you keep a pointer to what you marked from.
At the end you traverse the objects sort and report.

At 11:35 PM 4/14/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Can anyone point me to some papers describing algorithms that maintain root
>identity for each reachable object?
>
>I'm trying to determine if there's an O(N) algorithm for profiling the
>cumulative size of objects reachable from other objects, but without
>double-counting when they're reachable from multiple roots.
>
>I searched the gclist archive but didn't come up with anything.
>
>
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