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@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ In the latest version of Cyclone Scheme (0.9) we have modified major GC to use l
- Heap - A section of dynamic memory managed by the garbage collector. The heap is not stored as a single contiguous block but rather is broken up into a series of pages.
- Mutator - A thread running user (or "application") code; there may be more than one mutator running concurrently.
- Root - During tracing the collector uses these objects as the starting point to find all reachable data.
- Sweep - A phase of garbage collection where the heap - either the whole heap or a subset - is scanned and any free slots are freed.
- Sweep - A phase of garbage collection where the heap - either the whole heap or a subset - is scanned and any unused slots are made available for new allocations.
- Tracing - A phase of garbage collection that visits and marks all live objects on the heap. This is done by starting from a set of "root" objects and iteratively following references to child objects.
# Marking Objects