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Quote: use tricolor marking to understand incremental garbage collection: release white objects, retain black objects, and process descendants of grey objects; no pointers from black to white objects

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memory management by garbage collection

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The abstraction of tricolor marking is helpful in … The objects subject to garbage collection are conceptually … black. … To understand and prevent such interactions between the … an object has been reached by the traversal, … [p. 22] Intuitively, the traversal proceeds in a wavefront … there are no pointers directly from black objects …   Google-1   Google-2

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