Quote: prior to eviction to disk; the BC garbage collector bookmarks references into the page and increments the target superpages' headers; allows collecting the heap without paging

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Unlike existing garbage collectors, BC avoids paging caused … BC scans each object on the [virtual memory's] victim page, bookmarks the targets of any references, and increments … memory manager that the page can be evicted. … heap without paging.   Google-1   Google-2

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