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CHICKEN Scheme uses the stack as heap which "grows only" in continuation-passing style (CPS). When it hits the limit, only the live heap parts are copied to the

CHICKEN Scheme uses the stack as heap which "grows only" in continuation-passing style (CPS). When it hits the limit, only the live heap parts are copied to the new stack. [0] https://www.plover.com/~mjd/misc/hbaker-archive/CheneyMTA.html https://www.plover.com/~mjd/misc/hbaker-archive/CheneyMTA.ht...

pkulak 4y ago
Sound like mark-and-sweep.
- p_l 4y ago
  it's a variation of two-space copying GC, not mark-and-sweep - aka "Cheney GC". The specific variant ("Cheney on the MTA") is about using stack and CPS to implement it.