As someone interested in both Perl and garbage collection, I've been following the discussion here with interest. Since I haven't seen it mentioned, I thought I would point out Paul Wilson's work in this area at UT Austin, which I found useful back when I was doing GC stuff. He has a survey of GC options and their tradeoffs, some experiments measuring typical programs' memory locality, and a discussion of how these things relate. This is some random course page, but it links to the relevant papers:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/wilson/cs395t/ Hope that's useful, or amusing, or something. Sean (relurks) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com
