| From: Shriram Krishnamurthi (sk at cs.brown.edu) Date: Tue Jan 31 14:09:12 EST 2006 |
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Conservative garbage collection is when the collector is not supported by the run-time system, and must therefore make a guess as to what is and isn't a root. "Precise" in this context means it knows precisely what the roots are, because the run-time system informs it. You should read the survey of GC by Wilson: ftp://ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/garbage/gcsurvey.ps Shriram
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