[gclist] Finalization and death notices

[Denys Duchier]

Nick Barnes <Nick.Barnes@pobox.com> writes:

> All this talk about finalization prompts me to describe the
> finalization system we have in our Memory Pool System (MPS).  Here it
> is:

That's pretty much the approach described in "Guardians in a
Generation-Based Garbage Collector" (R. Kent Dybvig, Carl Bruggeman,
David Eby, June 1993), right?  That's also the approach I implemented
in Mozart/Oz.

Cheers,

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