Introduce the two main sections by a paragraph in the introduction.

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Robert Strandh 6 years ago
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There is a rich literature on automatic memory management.
(see e.g., \cite{Jones:2011:GCH:2025255})
For \sysname{}, we plan to have a two-level memory management
technique. The low level consists of a relatively small heap for each
thread, and a per-thread garbage collector that manages that heap.
The higher-level contains long-lived objects and objects that are
shared between several threads.
\section{Per-thread garbage collector}
Each thread has a local heap, roughly the size of the cache, say

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