its not an analogy, theres actually research that proves that GC can actually improve memory locality in a particular provable sense! http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rw

its not an analogy, theres actually research that proves that GC can actually improve memory locality in a particular provable sense! http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/papers/iolambda/short.pdf http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/papers/iolambda/short.pdf and http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/papers/iolambda-cacm/cacm.pdf http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/papers/iolambda-cacm/cacm.pdf both treat this topic in a pretty rigorous way. (i've had some attempts at proving a similar intuition, but those papers do it right)