[gclist] Regions and collection.

Michael Hicks mwh@cs.umd.edu
30 Aug 2002 13:00:42 -0400


There are both regions and garbage collection in the Cyclone compiler;
see http://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/cyclone.  There is a PLDI paper
there that talks about the region/GC system.

Mike

On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 12:58, Boehm, Hans wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paul Haahr [mailto:haahr@jivetech.com]
> > 
> > I keep wondering if there's a way to usefully combine regions with
> > gargabe collection.  Last time I read the papers on region analysis,
> > they were mutually exclusive.
> > 
> Hallenberg, Elsman, and Tofte, "Combining Region Inference and Garbage Collection", PLDI 2002, p. 141-152.
> 
> Hans