From: Damien Doligez <damien.doligez@inria.fr>
To: caml-list@inria.fr, farago@eecs.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] compact.c
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 15:59:42 +0200 (MET DST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200207291359.PAA0000032271@beaune.inria.fr> (raw)
>From: Julie Farago <farago@eecs.harvard.edu>
>
>Is there a paper on the compaction code (compact.c) of the garbage
>collector (in byterun/)? Even though the documentation in this file is
>really exceptional, I am a little confused by how the inversion of
>pointers is used to compact the heap. Is there an algorithm I should
>lookup?
There is no paper on compact.c itself, but the algorithm is not
original. If I remember correctly, it is from this paper:
F. Lockwood Morris, A time- and space-efficient garbage compaction
algorithm, Communications of the ACM, v.21 n.8, p.662-665, Aug. 1978
The only tricky part is the double inversion of pointers to infix
headers. If you really need it, I'll write up a short description and
put it on my web page.
-- Damien
-------------------
To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr
Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/
Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners
next reply other threads:[~2002-07-29 13:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-29 13:59 Damien Doligez [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-07-19 15:46 [Caml-list] Rule based language [was: productivity improvement] Alessandro Baretta
2002-07-19 17:20 ` [Caml-list] compact.c Julie Farago
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=200207291359.PAA0000032271@beaune.inria.fr \
--to=damien.doligez@inria.fr \
--cc=caml-list@inria.fr \
--cc=farago@eecs.harvard.edu \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).