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Smalltalk Report, February, 1995
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
This column is the site of my greatest disaster as a column writer—I promised something I didn't deliver. This was another one of those “write the first half now and the rest later” columns. Unlike the column about applying patterns to design, however, I didn't know the second half of the material when I started. I stil feel bad about this, but I still don't know the material for the second half, so I still can't write it
I really like this column as a piece of pedagogy. It is an excellent example of lie management. I describe garbage collection simply one way, then simply another, then combine the two for a truer picture of garbage collection. And hey, I even included a bunch of pictures.
This month I'll talk about garbage collection. To paraphrase Mark Twain, everybody talks about the garbage collector, but nobody does anything about it. All of the commercial Smalltalks provide some ability to tune the garbage collector, but without knowing what's going on and why, you are unlikely to be able to know when these features are applicable or how to use them. This article discusses the common vocabulary of modern garbage collection. Later, we'll explore what you can do to tune the garbage collector in the various Smalltalks.
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