Re: The Fundamental Confusion of Xah

On 24 Lug, 03:52, George Neuner <gneuner2/@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:19:07 -0700 (PDT), Vend <ven...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >What is sliding heap compaction?
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> It's a simple method of eliminating fragmentation in the heap.  Live
> objects are relocated while preserving their relative order by sliding
> (copying) them to one end of the heap.
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> See:http://www.memorymanagement.org/glossary/h.html#handle
> for a visual aid of the table indirection model that was common in the
> old BASICs.  As the text mentions, it also was the memory model for
> the old (pre-Unix) Mac OS.
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> Also Google for Mark-Compact(ing) GC.  I tried briefly to find visual
> aids for this algorithm but I didn't see anything simple - really odd
> because both JVM and .NET use MC ... you'd think the web would be full
> of pages trying to explain it.  Anyway, maybe you can find a good
> paper - the only good MC visuals I know of are offline in Jones & Lins
> GC book.

Ok, thanks.