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mark-sweep discussion
mark-sweep reviews and mentions
- Baby's First Garbage Collector (2013)
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Roll A Lisp In C – Reading (2020)
Seconding the Make-A-Lisp and Crafting Interpreters recommendations. This post is also really great, it contains a hard written parser that you may learn from.
You mentioned you want to write your lisp in javascript so you'll be getting quite a lot of functionality for free: memory allocation and garbage collection. Just in case anyone reading is going to write in C, here's an excellent introduction to the topic:
https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/12/08/babys-first-ga...
Don't forget to spill the registers.
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Let's Write a Malloc
Never forget:
https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/12/08/babys-first-ga...
> Let me stress here that while this collector is simple, it isn’t a toy.
> There are a ton of optimizations you can build on top of this—in GCs and programming languages, optimization is 90% of the effort—but the core code here is a legitimate real GC.
> It’s very similar to the collectors that were in Ruby and Lua until recently.
> You can ship production code that uses something exactly like this.
> Now go build something awesome!
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loxcraft: a compiler, language server, and online playground for the Lox programming language
Bob Nystrom also has a blog, and his articles are really well written (see his post on Pratt parsers / garbage collectors). I'd also recommend going through the source code for Wren, it shares a lot of code with Lox. Despite the deceptive simplicity of the implementation, it (like Lox) is incredibly fast - it's a great way to learn how to build production grade compilers in general.
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The Garbage Collection Handbook, 2nd Edition
Bob Nystrom (of Game Programming Patterns, Crafting Interpreters, and dartfmt fame) also wrote a tutorial[1], of a precise as opposed to a conservative garbage collector.
Regarding register scanning, Andreas Kling has made (or at least quoted) an amusing observation[2] that your C runtime already has a primitive to dump all callee-save registers onto the stack: setjmp(). So all you have to do to scan registers is to put a jmp_buf onto the stack, setjmp() to it, then scan the stack normally starting from its address.
[1] https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/12/08/babys-first-ga...
[2] https://youtu.be/IzB6iTeo8kk
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Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?
- http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/12/08/babys-first-gar...
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Garbage Collection with LLVM
Might not be that hard: https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/12/08/babys-first-garbage-collector/
- Baby’s First Garbage Collector (2013)
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munificent/mark-sweep is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of mark-sweep is C.