| 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. |
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| 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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