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# Introduction
The goal of this paper is to provide a high-level overview of Cyclone's garbage collector. The collector has the following requirements:
The goal of this paper is to provide a high-level overview of Cyclone's garbage collector. The explanation is still fairly technical; it might be helpful to have some background in programming. There are also a couple of introductory articles included in the further reading at the end of this paper.
Anyway, with that out of the way - the collector has the following requirements:
- Efficiently free allocated memory.
- Allow the language implementation to support tail calls and continuations.