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1 This is an attempt to acknowledge early contributions to the garbage
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2 collector. Later contributions should instead be mentioned in
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3 README.changes.
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5 HISTORY -
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7 Early versions of this collector were developed as a part of research
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8 projects supported in part by the National Science Foundation
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9 and the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency.
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11 The garbage collector originated as part of the run-time system for
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12 the Russell programming language implementation. The first version of the
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13 garbage collector was written primarily by Al Demers. It was then refined
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14 and mostly rewritten, primarily by Hans-J. Boehm, at Cornell U.,
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15 the University of Washington, Rice University (where it was first used for
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16 C and assembly code), Xerox PARC, SGI, and HP Labs. However, significant
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17 contributions have also been made by many others.
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19 Some other contributors:
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21 More recent contributors are mentioned in the modification history in
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22 README.changes. My apologies for any omissions.
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24 The SPARC specific code was originally contributed by Mark Weiser.
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25 The Encore Multimax modifications were supplied by
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26 Kevin Kenny (kenny@m.cs.uiuc.edu). The adaptation to the IBM PC/RT is largely
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27 due to Vernon Lee, on machines made available to Rice by IBM.
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28 Much of the HP specific code and a number of good suggestions for improving the
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29 generic code are due to Walter Underwood.
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30 Robert Brazile (brazile@diamond.bbn.com) originally supplied the ULTRIX code.
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31 Al Dosser (dosser@src.dec.com) and Regis Cridlig (Regis.Cridlig@cl.cam.ac.uk)
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32 subsequently provided updates and information on variation between ULTRIX
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33 systems. Parag Patel (parag@netcom.com) supplied the A/UX code.
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34 Jesper Peterson(jep@mtiame.mtia.oz.au), Michel Schinz, and
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35 Martin Tauchmann (martintauchmann@bigfoot.com) supplied the Amiga port.
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36 Thomas Funke (thf@zelator.in-berlin.de(?)) and
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37 Brian D.Carlstrom (bdc@clark.lcs.mit.edu) supplied the NeXT ports.
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38 Douglas Steel (doug@wg.icl.co.uk) provided ICL DRS6000 code.
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39 Bill Janssen (janssen@parc.xerox.com) supplied the SunOS dynamic loader
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40 specific code. Manuel Serrano (serrano@cornas.inria.fr) supplied linux and
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41 Sony News specific code. Al Dosser provided Alpha/OSF/1 code. He and
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42 Dave Detlefs(detlefs@src.dec.com) also provided several generic bug fixes.
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43 Alistair G. Crooks(agc@uts.amdahl.com) supplied the NetBSD and 386BSD ports.
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44 Jeffrey Hsu (hsu@soda.berkeley.edu) provided the FreeBSD port.
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45 Brent Benson (brent@jade.ssd.csd.harris.com) ported the collector to
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46 a Motorola 88K processor running CX/UX (Harris NightHawk).
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47 Ari Huttunen (Ari.Huttunen@hut.fi) generalized the OS/2 port to
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48 nonIBM development environments (a nontrivial task).
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49 Patrick Beard (beard@cs.ucdavis.edu) provided the initial MacOS port.
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50 David Chase, then at Olivetti Research, suggested several improvements.
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51 Scott Schwartz (schwartz@groucho.cse.psu.edu) supplied some of the
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52 code to save and print call stacks for leak detection on a SPARC.
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53 Jesse Hull and John Ellis supplied the C++ interface code.
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54 Zhong Shao performed much of the experimentation that led to the
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55 current typed allocation facility. (His dynamic type inference code hasn't
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56 made it into the released version of the collector, yet.)
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