Garbage collecting the internet: A survey of distributed garbage collection

Internet programming languages such as Java present new challenges to garba ge-collection design. The spectrum of garbage-collection sehema for linked structures distributed over a network are reviewed here. Distributed garbag e collectors are classified first because they evolved from single-address- space collectors, This taxonomy is used as a framework to explore distribut ion issues: locality of action, communication overhead and indeterministic communication latency.