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\chapter{Garbage collection}
\label{chap-garbage-collection}
\section{Introduction}
Contrary to traditional operating systems such as \unix{}, a Lisp
operating system will need a global \emph{garbage collector}. There
is a rich literature (see e.g., \cite{Jones:2011:GCH:2025255}) on the
subject.
\section{Per-thread garbage collector}
Each thread has a local heap, roughly the size of the cache, say
around 4MiB. The thread-local heap is managed entirely by the thread
itself, so that the garbage collector for it is executed by the thread
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relative age of the objects, so that we can promote only the oldest
objects when required.
\section{Global garbage collector}
In addition to the thread-local heaps, there is a global heap. The
garbage collector for this heap will use a combination of the
traditional \emph{mark-and-sweep} collector and an ordinary memory

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