From McCarthy's paper: > When a free register is wanted, and there is none left on the free-storage list, a reclamation (7) cycle starts. > (...) > (7) We al

From McCarthy's paper: > When a free register is wanted, and there is none left on the free-storage list, a reclamation (7) cycle starts. > (...) > (7) We already called this process "garbage collection", but I guess I chickened out of using it in the paper -- or else the Research Laboratory of Electronics grammar ladies wouldn’t let me.