@posco "Garbage collection was invented by John McCarthy around 1959 to solve problems in Lisp." -
Wikipedia http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_(computer_science) …
@peterseibel @posco ... and then generational GC was invented to help with the awesomeness of Smalltalk ;)
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@avibryant@posco Per http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/YoungGen.html … GenGC was first discussed in http://web.media.mit.edu/~lieber/Lieberary/GC/Realtime/Realtime.html … Looks like a couple of Lispers to me. -
@peterseibel@posco touché. I was thinking of generational scavenging, which came a few years later: http://people.cs.umass.edu/~emery/classes/cmpsci691s-fall2004/papers/p157-ungar.pdf …
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