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Yeah, I noticed that. I first heard of generational GC in association with Smalltalk VMs and I think that's where they made their debut.



The first generational garbage collector was for Lisp:

http://web.media.mit.edu/~lieber/Lieberary/GC/Realtime/Realt...




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