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Date:Mon May 10 12:51:41 1999 
Subject:Re: Garbage collection 
From:Robin Popplestone 
Volume-ID:990510.04 

Incidentally, garbage collection, because it compacts the heap,
has the potential for creating programs that run -faster- than
C, since in today's machines locality is everything. Even a cache-miss
will cost quite a lot of missed-instructions, while a page-fault
takes something near eternity to remedy.

RJP