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No, Cheney on the MTA uses the stack as the nursery of a generational collector; the live objects are evacuated using Chris Cheney’s copying algorithm (developed for the Cambridge ALGOL 68 compiler).

Chicken’s last generation GC might be mark-sweep, but that isn’t the MTA part.






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