From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <197c245cd830d9ea21caa61e67d26169@plan9.bell-labs.com> From: David Presotto To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: advantages of limbo In-Reply-To: <200403020851.i228plJa071683@adat.davidashen.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 04:06:55 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0aaa5f48-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > It is a wrong assumption that mark'n'sweep requires staged garbage > collection. Why don't you just use propagating markers? It is marginally > complex algorithmically, instantly throws away rubbish and does not > make a difference between cyclic and acyclic data structures. I don't know about this. Could you provide a reference?