[bitc-dev] Pools in lieu of GC

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

Folks:

I feel like I should apologize for some of my tone in this thread. I'm
desperately trying to get the first BitC release locked down, life
here is severely crazy, and I was definitely a little cranky last
night.

Several people have asked valid questions here. For those of you
interested in GC, there is an enormous literature. The page at

  http://www.memorymanagement.org/bib/f.html

is a good place to start, in particular Paul R. Wilson's grand (if now
dated) survey on Uniprocessor Garbage Collection Techniques. The other
good source is the book "Garbage Collection: Algorithms for Automatic
Dynamic Memory Management" by Richard Jones. Expensive but very much
worth it.

For those of you (notably Pal) interested in very small targets, I can
only say that we need to focus on one problem at a time.

Finally, can I please ask people to remember to change the subject
line when you introduce a new topic? Failing to change the subject
line makes it very hard to find these discussions later!

Sorry.