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- Collector - A thread running the garbage collection code. The collector is responsible for coordinating and performing most of the work for major garbage collections.
- GC - Garbage collector.
- Heap - TODO: also, describe what we mean by "page"
- 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 - TODO
- 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
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2. [Introducing Riptide: WebKit’s Retreating Wavefront Concurrent Garbage Collector](https://webkit.org/blog/7122/introducing-riptide-webkits-retreating-wavefront-concurrent-garbage-collector/), by Filip Pizlo
3. [Scheme Benchmarks](https://ecraven.github.io/r7rs-benchmarks/), by [ecraven](https://github.com/ecraven)
4. [The Ramsey sweep](http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/msg00761.html), by Olin Shivers
5. TODO:
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