From: michael@schuerig.de   
      
   George Neuner wrote:   
      
   > Most texts cover basic GC and creating pointer/reference maps for your   
   > structured types.  That works well provided the maps are simple and   
   > fast to decode (e.g., byte or word maps rather than bits).  A slightly   
   > faster, but more complex, method is to generate a customized scanning   
   > function for each type that knows where to find embedded references   
   > ... not all texts mention this method.   
      
   Could you be a bit more specific about the texts, please? AFAIR, neither   
   the Dragon Book nor Jones/Lins, "Garbage Collection", or   
   Scott, "Programming Language Pragmatics", cover this. Surprisingly, I   
   might add.   
      
   Michael   
      
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