Re: [stack] Concatenative Hardware

John Cowan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.concatenative
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Stevan Apter scripsit:
> who IS henry baker anyway?

He's probably best known for the Baker garbage collector, which divides
the available space into Tospace and Fromspace.  Each gc run lazily
copies some non-garbage from Fromspace to Tospace until nothing is left
in Fromspace: then the two semi-spaces swap identities.  It was the
first stop and copy (as opposed to mark and sweep or mark-sweep-compact)
garbage collector.

One of his papers also inspired Chicken Scheme.

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