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This has always been my favorite garbage collector. Not because of any performance benefits; I’ve just always liked the elegance of it.

At the dawn of the Squeak Smalltalk era, there was some company (forget which) that did a hybrid Bakers treadmill implementation for some real time stuff.

I did a simplistic implementation in C once for an image processing pipeline to manage labeled regions. Once you get it correct, it’s pretty slick. I used a Fibonacci sizer for the different ring sizes.



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