From 86399604d078efdfa24811ccf4bd7d7eaaa9363d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Justin Ethier Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 22:09:47 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Added intro paragraph --- docs/Garbage-Collector.md | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/Garbage-Collector.md b/docs/Garbage-Collector.md index 582ab9a4..c1f28caf 100644 --- a/docs/Garbage-Collector.md +++ b/docs/Garbage-Collector.md @@ -24,7 +24,9 @@ # 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.