yost@DPW.COM (David A. Yost) (11/27/90)
Garbage collection reclaims memory that is no longer referenced. How about an additional general mechanism which reclaims memory that is still referenced, but is dispensable? (This might be called Stash Collection.) The idea is that when GC can't make enough room to satisfy a request, it invokes SC, which looks around for objects that will volunteer to give up some memory they don't really need, such as cached data or multiple reperesentations of the same data. Has anyone developed such a mechanism? --dave yost yost@dpw.com or uunet!esquire!yost Please don't use other mangled forms you may see in the From, Reply-To, or CC fields above.