On Sunday, August 13, 2017 at 11:45:09 PM UTC-7, Kirk Pepperdine wrote:
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> Hi,
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> > On Aug 14, 2017, at 7:47 AM, Peter Veentjer > wrote:
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> > I have been improving my gc knowledge and there is some confusion on my
> side regarding the 'mark-sweep-compact' algorithm I frequently see
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I've taken to using Mark-Sweep-Compact, Mark-Sweep (no Compact), and
Mark-Compact (no sweep) to describe the variants, because you will find all
of them in the wild these days.
The confusion starts with the fact that some algorithms that people often
refer to as "Mark-Sweep" are actually Mark-S
