Reference counting garbage collection

[Paul Rubin]

Erno Kuusela <erno-news at erno.iki.fi> writes:
> on the other hand it is also worth keeping in mind that back then
> there were no caches in cpus, whereas todays cpu caches as big as main
> memories were then (and see very good hit rates).

We run bigger applications now than we did then.  Otherwise we wouldn't
find ourselves buying so much dram.