"Bag of pages" algorithm?

[Daniel Berlin]

On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 15:21 -0500, Domagoj D wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> > > Could anyone recommend a good reference (paper/book/webpage/...)
> > > about the "bag of pages" GC algorithm used in GCC?
> > There is none, AFAIK.
> 
> Argh, how am I supposed to figure out the arcane lore of GCC programmers than? :-)

What exactly are you trying to do?
Replace it?


> 
> > > Also, is there
> > > any document about the specifics of GCC implementation (besides
> > > GCC Internals document)?
> > Nope.
> 
> I can just hope that someone actually knows a good reference to recommend
> or is willing to write "GCC GC for beginners" :-) in a page or two... 

I wrote on of the two gc implementations that is there (ggc-zone).

There is nothing magic or special about them.

They should be fairly easy to understand for anyone who understands the
basics of garbage collection.


> 
> Thx.
>   Domagoj
>