Re: Help finding a book and some gc references

IS this perhaps related to work at Xerox PARC?  They did something  
like this.

On 2008-10-14, at 3:57 PM, Robert Virding wrote:

> Hi, I need some help finding the name of a book.
>
> The book is quite old, from the late eighties. I can't remember the  
> name of even the general content. However, there was a chapter in  
> the book about reference counting garbage collection and how to make  
> it interactive without long pause times. The author used something  
> he called a TBD list (to be dereferenced) where you push references  
> to objects which are to have the reference count decremented. When  
> an object is completely deferenced then its children are pushed on  
> the stack and so you avoid having to potentially free a large object  
> in one go. I know the technique is described in many places, but  
> this description was very understandable. And I remember the rest of  
> the book as well, but I had only borrowed the book.
>
> Any help in finding the book would be greatly appreciated.
>
> My next request is about more modern references to articles and  
> papers to doing efficient reference counting gc in smp systems.  
> There again I had read a paper on the net with many interesting  
> references but of course I forgot to save the paper. Any help with  
> modern references to reference counting gc in smp or other  
> multiprocessor systems would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help,
>
> Robert Virding
>