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> The garbage collection in your web browser is complete, utter garbage compared to what Lisp people were doing 30-40 years ago. Sorry! Can you back that state

> The garbage collection in your web browser is complete, utter garbage compared to what Lisp people were doing 30-40 years ago. Sorry! Can you back that statement up? GC has advanced heavily over the years (and still is).The first paper on generational GC was published in 1984, and I would imagine that it has drastically improved since then. I don't think that generational GC even landed in SBCL until sometime around 2005. Without anything to back that up, your post just sounds like Lisp fanboyism.

gnaritas 11y ago
Not the OP, but LISP machines had hardware incremental GC, I'd say GC in the hardware is pretty bad ass and was probably more predictable than modern software based GC.
lispm 11y ago
You could read the chapters on memory management and GC in the Symbolics Genera 8 manuals: areas, generations, resources, ephemeral GC, generational copying GC, full GC, ... http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/symbolics/software/genera_8/Internals.pdf http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/symbolics/s...