I have been improving my gc knowledge and there is some confusion on my side regarding the 'mark-sweep-compact' algorithm I frequently see mentioned in posts, articles and some not too formal books on the topic. E.g.
https://plumbr.eu/handbook/garbage-collection-algorithms/removing-unused-objects/compact https://www.infoq.com/news/2015/12/java-garbage-collection-minibook AFAIK mark-sweep-compact is not correct. It is either mark-sweep or mark-compact where as part of the compacting process the dead objects are removed. When I check more formal literature like "The Garbage Collection Handbook: the Art of Automatic Memory Management", then there is no mentioning of mark-sweep-compact. So I guess that when 'mark-sweep-compact' is mentioned, they are actually referring to 'mark-compact'. Is this assumption correct? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mechanical-sympathy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mechanical-sympathy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
