[gclist] Demand driven generational collector

[Ji-Yong D. Chung]

    Sorry for using "Piglets in the Snake."

    Didn't mean any disrespect to the original
author of the term.  I used "piglets" instead
of pig because I thought (1) a python could not
possibly swallow a real pig, and (2) pigs
don't thrive in equatorial regions where pythons
(presumably) live in abundance.

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Ungar" <David.Ungar@Sun.COM>
To: <moss@cs.umass.edu>; "Ji-Yong D. Chung" <virtualcyber@erols.com>
Cc: <moss@cs.umass.edu>; "Nick Barnes" <Nick.Barnes@pobox.com>;
<pekka.p.pirinen@globalgraphics.com>; <gclist@lists.iecc.com>
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: [gclist] Demand driven generational collector


> "Pig in the Python" was coined by Frank Jackson when he (and I) were
working
> on demographic-feedback-mediated tenuring, for our OOPSLA'88 paper.
> I believe it first appeared in there.
>
> - Dave
>
>
>
> At 4:25 PM -0400 10/5/01, Eliot Moss wrote:
> >No big deal, but the usual term is "Pig in the Python", which has nice
> >alliteration. I think I heard it first from Barry Hayes, who may have
> >coined it. Any GC historians out there who know its origin more certainly
> >:-) ?
> >
> >-- Eliot
>
>
> --
>
>
>      David Ungar
>      Sun Microsystems Laboratories
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