From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id TAA05612; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 19:20:45 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA05613 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 19:20:44 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mail.eecs.harvard.edu (bowser.eecs.harvard.edu [140.247.60.24]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g6JHKhj29524 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 19:20:43 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by mail.eecs.harvard.edu (Postfix, from userid 33000) id A55C354C7F9; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 13:20:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.eecs.harvard.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A36FE54C6BC for ; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 13:20:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 13:20:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Julie Farago To: Ocaml Subject: [Caml-list] compact.c In-Reply-To: <3D383469.9050402@baretta.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Hello, 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? Thanks a lot! -Julie ------------------- 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