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