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Christian Lynbech <chl@tbit.dk> writes: > Heres an idea I just came up with, that I thought I would like to test > in the open. > > Studies on memory allocation behaviour (as I understand the matter) > that most object either die very young, or live for considerable > amounts of time. > > This is the motivation behind generational collectors. Once an object > has reached a certain age, it is moved to an area less frequently > scanned, since the likelyhood that it will need collection has dropped > considerably. > > Unfortunately, this is not (immediately) available to us, since we > cannot move objects around. <snip> As I understand it, you can do generational GC just fine without copying; as long as you can control where things get allocated. You'd have to eventually start using an "old" generation as "young" storage space, but it should save time anyway. Andrew aarchiba@csclub.uwaterloo.ca