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thus spake Mike Griebling in comp.lang.oberon...
. > 
. > Ok, in all Oberon systems that i have seen, the GC isn't a very
. > sophisticated one. But there are nowadays even real-time GC
. > Implemetations available. And look for example at the Elang Language and
. > its implementaion by Ericsson. They use it for writing telephony
. > software. So GC and functional languages have gone a long way. Surely
. > would it be possible to incorporate a real-time GC in OBeron.

. Do you have any pointers or papers written about Elang and it's garbage
. collection algorithms?

no, but look at Ungar's book

	The design and evaluation of a high performance Smalltalk
	system,  D. M. Ungar, MIT Press, 1987

for a complete description of "generation scavenging".
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