>
> dan at his recent talk at boston.pm's tech meeting said he was leaning
> towards a copying GC scheme. this would be the split ram in half design
> and copy all objects to the other half at CG time. the old half is
> reclaimed (not even reclaimed, just ignored!) in one big chunk.
>
This schemes require double the necessary memory, if you have what is needed
for this (if you are able to move objects around) maybe a mark-compact algo
would be better.
In any case I didn't here the talk but previously I think I read him talking
about more elaborate generational schemes. In this case a copying scheme
could
be used for the lower generation and a mark sweep for the upper.
Benoit
