garren@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM (Scott Garren) (10/06/86)
Relative to discussions of garbage collectors I would like to point out that there are issues of scale involved. Many techniques that work admirably on an address space limited to 8 Mbytes (Xerox hardware) do not scale at all well to systems that support up to 1 Gbytes (Symbolics). Non-disclaimer: I am an employee of Symbolics and am of course emotionally and financially involved in this issue.
Welch%OSU-20@OHIO-STATE.ARPA (Arun) (10/15/86)
>From: garren@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM (Scott Garren) >Date: 6 Oct 86 14:05:00 GMT > >Relative to discussions of garbage collectors I would like to point out >that there are issues of scale involved. Many techniques that work >admirably on an address space limited to 8 Mbytes (Xerox hardware) >do not scale at all well to systems that support up to 1 Gbytes >(Symbolics). To pick a nit here, the Xerox machines are capable of addressing up to 32Mb. Arun Welch {ihnp4,cbosgd}!osu-eddie!welch welch@ohio-state.{CSNET,ARPA} welch@red.rutgers.edu (a guest account, but mail gets to me eventually)