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No, Cheney on the MTA uses the stack as the nursery of a generational collector; the live objects are evacuated using Chris Cheney’s copying algorithm (develope
by fanf2 5y ago
No, Cheney on the MTA uses the stack as the nursery of a generational collector; the live objects are evacuated using Chris Cheney’s copying algorithm (developed for the Cambridge ALGOL 68 compiler).
Chicken’s last generation GC might be mark-sweep, but that isn’t the MTA part.
- pankajdoharey 5y agoHere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheney%27s_algorithm#Equivalence_to_tri-color_abstraction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheney%27s_algorithm#Equivalen...