[gclist] Re: Daily gclist MIME digest V3 #150

[Michael Hicks]

> does anyone know of work that has been done quantitatively comparing
> different GCs?

We wrote some papers comparing different GC *mechanisms*, but not different
GC's.  The metric we were interested in was GC speed, and we hypothesized
about effects to the client (mutator).  See http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~oscar
for papers and details.

Mike

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Michael Hicks
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