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An efficient garbage collection scheme for parallel computer architectures

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Watson, P., Watson, I. (1987). An efficient garbage collection scheme for parallel computer architectures. In: de Bakker, J.W., Nijman, A.J., Treleaven, P.C. (eds) PARLE Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe. PARLE 1987. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 259. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-17945-3_25

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