Architecture

[ET]

Ok, folks, I blew the references on this one!
I was thinking of

CONS Should not CONS its Arguments, or, a Lazy Alloc is a Smart Alloc

ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hb/hbaker/LazyAlloc.html
ACM Sigplan Notices 27, 3 (Mar 1992), 24-34.

Sorry for the confusion.  

To clarify, this would require a copying GC at the
first generation.
			~jrm

----------
> From: Henry G. Baker <hbaker@netcom.com>
> To: ET <emergent@eval-apply.com>
> Cc: lispos@math.gatech.edu
> Subject: Re: Architecture
> Date: Wednesday, 14 May, 1997 13:09
> 
> > When I was implementing MIT-Scheme for the 8086, I 
> > decided to use the SP register as the allocation frontier,
> > and the BP register to point to the current environment.
> > Henry Baker apparently came up with this at around the
> > same time with his  ``Cheney on the MTA'' paper that
> > introduces ``treadmill GC''.
> 
> > 			~jrm
> 
> I'm confused.  Cheney on the MTA is a way to map continuations onto C.
> Treadmill GC is a way to do RT GC without motion sickness.
> 
> ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hb/hbaker/CheneyMTA.html
> ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hb/hbaker/NoMotionGC.html
> 
> -- 
> Henry Baker
> www/ftp directory URL:
> ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hb/hbaker/home.html