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