garbage collection

[Jeff Cutsinger]

Waldemar Kornewald <Waldemar.Kornewald@web.de> said:

> Hi,
> maybe this is not interesting for you, but OSNews.com said that IBM has a
> new fast technique for Java garbage collection.
> I do not know anything about garbage collection, but maybe the information
> can be added to the TUNES cliki?
> Here is the link, if you are interested:
> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/library/i-incrcomp/?ca=dgr-lnxw07T
> rashCompactor
> 
> Waldemar
> 

Ah! Java has finally caught up with the state of the art of computer science
circa 1970! Well, at least with respect to garbage collection, it's probably
behind in other areas.

http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/baker77incremental.html

And a hint: most of the stuff posted to osnews is garbage, no pun intended.

-Jeff Cutsinger