1 This is an attempt to acknowledge contributions to the garbage collector.
2 Early contributions also mentioned (duplicated) in ChangeLog file; details of
3 later ones should be in "git log".
5 Currently maintained by Ivan Maidanski.
9 Early versions of this collector were developed as a part of research
10 projects supported in part by the National Science Foundation
11 and the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency.
13 The garbage collector originated as part of the run-time system for
14 the Russell programming language implementation. The first version of the
15 garbage collector was written primarily by Alan Demers. It was then refined
16 and mostly rewritten, primarily by Hans-J. Boehm, at Cornell U.,
17 the University of Washington, Rice University (where it was first used for
18 C and assembly code), Xerox PARC, SGI, and HP Labs. However, significant
19 contributions have also been made by many others.
21 Other contributors (my apologies for any omissions):
23 Adam Megacz <adam@megac.com>
25 Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
26 Adrian Pop <adrian.pop@liu.se>
27 Akira Tagoh <tagoh@redhat.com>
28 Alain Novak <alain.novak@hermes.si>
29 Alan Dosser <dosser@src.dec.com>
30 Alan J. Demers <ademers@cs.cornell.edu>
31 Alaskan Emily <emily@alaskanemily.net>
32 Aleksey Demakov <ademakov@gmail.com>
33 Alessandro Bruni <alessandro.bruni@gmail.com>
34 Alex Ronne Petersen <alexrp@xamarin.com>
35 Alexander Belchenko <bialix@ukr.net>
36 Alexander Gavrilov <angavrilov@gmail.com>
37 Alexander Herz <alexander.herz@mytum.de>
38 Alexandr Petrosian <paf@design.ru>
39 Alexandr Shadchin <ShadchinAV@mail.ru>
40 Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
41 Alexis Laferriere <alexis.laf@xymus.net>
42 Alistair G. Crooks <agc@uts.amdahl.com>
43 Allan Hsu <allan@counterpop.net>
44 Andre Leiradella <andre@leiradella.com>
45 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
46 Andreas Tobler <andreastt@gmail.com>
47 Andrei Polushin <polushin@gmail.com>
48 Andrej Cedilnik <acedil1@csee.umbc.edu>
49 Andrew Begel <abegel@eecs.berkeley.edu>
50 Andrew Buss <abuss@ucsd.edu>
51 Andrew Gray <andrew.gray@anu.edu.au>
52 Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>
53 Andrew Horton <andrew.j.horton@gmail.com>
54 Andrew McKinlay <mckinlay@axonsoft.com>
55 Andrew Pinski <pinskia@physics.uc.edu>
56 Andrew Stitcher <astitcher@redhat.com>
57 Andrew Stone <andrew@stone.com>
58 Andy Li <andy@onthewings.net>
59 Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
60 Anselm Baird-Smith <Anselm.BairdSmith@inria.fr>
61 Anthony Green <green@redhat.com>
63 Ari Huttunen <Ari.Huttunen@hut.fi>
64 Arrigo Triulzi <arrigo@ic.ac.uk>
65 Ashley Bone <ashley.bone@nvl.army.mil>
66 Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
67 Aurelien Larcher <aurelien.larcher@gmail.com>
68 Barry DeFreese <bdefreese@debian.org>
69 Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
70 Ben A. Mesander <ben@piglet.cr.usgs.gov>
71 Ben Cottrell <tamino@wolfhut.org>
72 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadentplace.org.uk>
73 Ben Maurer <benm@mono-cvs.ximian.com>
74 Benjamin Lerman <Benjamin.Lerman@ambre.net>
75 Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de>
76 Bernd Kuhls <bernd.kuhls@t-online.de>
77 Bernie Solomon <bernard@mono-cvs.ximian.com>
78 Bill Janssen <janssen@parc.xerox.com>
79 Bo Thorsen <bo@berlioz.suse.de>
80 Bradley D. LaRonde <brad@ltc.com>
81 Bradley Smith <brad@brad-smith.co.uk>
82 Brent Benson <brent@jade.ssd.csd.harris.com>
83 Brian Alliet <brian@brianweb.net>
84 Brian Beuning <bbeuning@corecard.com>
85 Brian Burton <bburton@users.sourceforge.net>
86 Brian D. Carlstrom <bdc@clark.lcs.mit.edu>
87 Brian F. Dennis <xjam@cork.cs.berkeley.edu>
88 Brian J. Cardiff <bcardiff@gmail.com>
89 Brian Lewis <btlewis@eng.sun.com>
90 Bruce A Henderson <woollybah@gmail.com>
91 Bruce Hoult <bruce@hoult.org>
92 Bruce Mitchener <bruce.mitchener@gmail.com>
93 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
94 Bryce McKinlay <mckinlay@redhat.com>
95 Burkhard Linke <blinke@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de>
96 Calvin Buckley <calvin@openmailbox.org>
97 Carlos J. Puga Medina <cpm@fbsd.es>
98 Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@nitnet.com.br>
99 Charles Fiterman <cef@geode.geodesic.com>
100 Charles Mills <boson@cyberspace.org>
101 Chris Dodd <chrisd@reservoir.com>
102 Chris Lingard <chris@highludworth.freeserve.co.uk>
103 Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
104 Christian Joensson <christian.joensson@gmail.com>
105 Christian Limpach <chris@pin.lu>
106 Christian Thalinger <twisti@complang.tuwien.ac.at>
107 Christian Weisgerber <naddy@openbsd.org>
108 Christoffe Raffali <christophe.raffalli@univ-savoie.fr>
109 Clay Spence <cds@peanut.sarnoff.com>
110 Colin LeMahieu <clemahieu@gmail.com>
111 Craig McDaniel <kreg7@bellsouth.net>
112 Dai Sato <satodai@dog.intcul.tohoku.ac.jp>
113 Dan Bonachea <bonachea@cs.berkeley.edu>
114 Dan Fandrich <dan@coneharvesters.com>
115 Dan Sullivan <sullivan@epa.gov>
116 Daniel R. Grayson <dan@math.uiuc.edu>
117 Danny Smith <danny_r_smith_2001@yahoo.co.nz>
118 Darrell Schiebel <drs@nrao.edu>
119 Dave Barrett <barrett@asgard.cs.colorado.edu>
120 Dave Detlefs <detlefs@src.dec.com>
121 Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com>
122 Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>
123 David Ayers <d.ayers@inode.at>
124 David Brownlee <abs@absd.org>
125 David Butenhof <david.butenhof@hp.com>
126 David Chase <dr2chase@mac.com>
127 David Daney <ddaney@avtrex.com>
128 David Grove <groved@us.ibm.com>
129 David Leonard <leonard@users.sourceforge.net>
130 David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
132 David Peroutka <djp@volny.cz>
133 David Pickens <dsp@rci.rutgers.edu>
134 David Stes <stes@d5e02b1d.kabel.telenet.be>
135 David Terei <d@davidterei.com>
136 David Van Horn <dvanhorn@ccs.neu.edu>
137 Davide Angelocola <davide.angelocola@tiscali.it>
138 Demyan Kimitsa <demyan.kimitsa@gmail.com>
139 Dick Porter <dick@acm.org>
140 Dietmar Planitzer <dave.pl@ping.at>
141 Dima Pasechnik <dimpase@gmail.com>
142 Dimitris Vyzovitis <vyzo@media.mit.edu>
143 Dimitry Andric <dim@freebsd.org>
144 Djamel Magri <djamel.magri@googlemail.com>
145 Doug Kaufman <dkaufman@rahul.net>
146 Doug Moen <doug@moens.org>
147 Douglas Steel <doug@wg.icl.co.uk>
148 Eli Barzilay <eli@racket-lang.org>
149 Elijah Taylor <elijahtaylor@google.com>
150 Elvenlord Elrond <elrond@samba-tng.org>
152 Eric Benson <eb@kaleida.com>
153 Eric Holk <eric.holk@gmail.com>
154 Erik M. Bray <erik.bray@lri.fr>
156 Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>
157 Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.oz.au>
158 Franklin Chen <chen@adi.com>
159 Fred Gilham <gilham@csl.sri.com>
161 Friedrich Dominicus <friedrichdominicus@googlemail.com>
162 Gabor Drescher <gabor.drescher@cs.fau.de>
163 Gary Leavens <leavens@eecs.ucf.edu>
164 Geoff Norton <grompf@sublimeintervention.com>
165 George Talbot <Gtalbot@ansarisbio.com>
167 Glauco Masotti <glauco.masotti@libero.it>
168 Grzegorz Jakacki <jakacki@acm.org>
169 Gustavo Giraldez <ggiraldez@manas.com.ar>
170 Gustavo Rodriguez-Rivera <grr@cs.purdue.edu>
171 H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
172 Hamayama <hamay1010@gmail.com>
173 Hannes Mehnert <hannes@mehnert.org>
174 Hanno Boeck <hanno@gentoo.org>
175 Hans Boehm <boehm@acm.org>
176 Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@axis.com>
177 Henning Makholm <Henning@octoshape.com>
178 Henrik Theiling <theiling@absint.com>
179 Hironori Sakamoto <hsaka@mth.biglobe.ne.jp>
180 Hiroshi Kawashima <kei@arch.sony.co.jp>
181 Hiroshi Yokota <yokota@netlab.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp>
182 Hubert Garavel <Hubert.Garavel@imag.fr>
183 Iain Sandoe <developer@sandoe-acoustics.co.uk>
184 Ian Piumarta <piumarta@prof.inria.fr>
185 Ian Searle <ians@eskimo.com>
186 Igor Khavkine <i_khavki@alcor.concordia.ca>
187 Ivan Demakov <ivan@tgrad.nsk.su>
188 Ivan Maidanski <ivmai@mail.ru>
189 Ivan R <iarspider@gmail.com>
190 Jaap Boender <jaapb@netbsd.org>
191 Jack Andrews <effbiae@gmail.com>
192 Jacob Navia <jacob.navia@jacob.remcomp.fr>
193 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
194 James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
196 Jan Alexander Steffens <jan.steffens@gmail.com>
197 Jan Wielemaker <J.Wielemaker@cs.vu.nl>
198 Jani Kajala <jani@sumea.com>
199 Jared McNeill <jmcneill@NetBSD.org>
200 Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse <jasper@openbsd.org>
201 Jay Krell <jaykrell@microsoft.com>
203 Jean-Claude Beaudoin <jean.claude.beaudoin@gmail.com>
204 Jean-Daniel Fekete <fekete@cs.umd.edu>
205 Jeff Sturm <jsturm@one-point.com>
206 Jeffrey Hsu <hsu@soda.berkeley.edu>
208 Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
209 Jesper Peterson <jep@mtiame.mtia.oz.au>
211 Jesse Jones <jesjones@mindspring.com>
212 Jesse Rosenstock <jmr@ugcs.caltech.edu>
214 Jie Liu <lj8175@gmail.com>
215 Jim Marshall <jim.marshall@wbemsolutions.com>
216 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
217 Joao Abecasis <joao@abecasis.name>
218 Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
219 Johannes Schmidt <jschmidt@avtrex.com>
220 Johannes Totz <jtotz@ic.ac.uk>
221 John Bowman <bowman@ualberta.ca>
222 John Clements <clements@brinkerhoff.org>
223 John Ellis <ellis@xerox.parc.com>
224 John Merryweather Cooper <jmerry@mono-cvs.ximian.com>
225 Jon Moore <jonm@apache.org>
226 Jonas Echterhoff <jonas@unity3d.com>
227 Jonathan Bachrach <jonathan@harlequin.com>
228 Jonathan Chambers <jonathan@unity3d.com>
230 Jonathan Pryor <jpryor@novell.com>
231 Josh Peterson <petersonjm1@gmail.com>
232 Joshua Richardson <jric@chegg.com>
233 Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <juanjose.garciaripoll@googlemail.com>
234 Jukka Jylanki <jujjyl@gmail.com>
235 Kai Tietz <ktietz70@googlemail.com>
236 Kaz Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
237 Kazu Hirata <kazu@codesourcery.com>
238 Kazuhiro Inaoka <inaoka.kazuhiro@renesas.com>
239 Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com>
240 Kenjiro Taura <tau@eidos.ic.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
241 Kenneth Schalk <schalk@cadtls.hlo.dec.com>
242 Kevin Kenny <kenny@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
243 Kevin Tew <tewk@racket-lang.org>
244 Kevin Warne <kevinw@direct.ca>
245 Kimura Wataru <kimuraw@i.nifty.jp>
246 Kjetil Matheussen <k.s.matheussen@notam02.no>
247 Klaus Treichel <ktreichel@web.de>
248 Klemens Zwischenbrugger <ka7@la-evento.com>
249 Knut Tvedten <knuttv@ifi.uio.no>
250 Krister Walfridsson <cato@df.lth.se>
251 Kristian Kristensen <kk@cs.aau.dk>
253 Kurt Miller <kurt@intricatesoftware.com>
254 Lars Farm <lars.farm@ite.mh.se>
255 Laurent Morichetti <l_m@pacbell.net>
256 Leonardo Taccari <iamleot@gmail.com>
257 Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com>
258 Loren J. Rittle <rittle@latour.labs.mot.com>
259 Louis Zhuang <louis.zhuang@acm.org>
260 Lucas Meijer <lucas@unity3d.com>
261 Ludovic Courtes <ludo@gnu.org>
262 Maarten Thibaut <mthibaut@cisco.com>
263 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo@gmail.com>
264 Manuel Serrano <serrano@cornas.inria.fr>
265 Marc Recht <recht@netbsd.org>
266 Marco Maggi <marco.maggi-ipsu@poste.it>
267 Marcos Dione <Marcos_David.Dione@sophia.inria.fr>
269 Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
270 Margaret Fleck <mfleck@illinois.edu>
271 Mark Boulter <mboulter@vnet.ibm.com>
272 Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
273 Mark Reichert <markr@sirs.com>
275 Mark Weiser <weiser@ubiq.com>
276 Martin Hirzel <hirzel@cs.colorado.edu>
277 Martin Koeppe <mkoeppe@gmx.de>
278 Martin Tauchmann <martintauchmann@bigfoot.com>
279 Matt Austern <austern@google.com>
280 Matthew Flatt <mflatt@plt-scheme.org>
281 Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
282 Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de>
283 Maurizio Vairani <maurizio.vairani@cloverinformatica.it>
284 Max Mouratov <mmouratov@gmail.com>
285 Maya Rashish <coypu@sdf.org>
286 Melissa O'Neill <oneill@cs.sfu.ca>
287 Michael Arnoldus <chime@proinf.dk>
288 Michael DeRoy <deroymichael@gmail.com>
289 Michael Fox <mfox@cavium.com>
290 Michael Herring <khakionion@gmail.com>
291 Michael Smith <msmith@spinnakernet.com>
292 Michael Spertus <mps@geodesic.com>
293 Michel Schinz <schinz@alphanet.ch>
294 Miguel de Icaza <miguel@gnome.org>
295 Mikael Djurfeldt <mikael@djurfeldt.com>
296 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
297 Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com>
298 Mike McGaughey <mmcg@cs.monash.edu.au>
299 Mike Stump <mrs@windriver.com>
300 Mitch Harris <maharri@uiuc.edu>
301 Mohan Embar <gnustuff@thisiscool.com>
302 Naoyuki Sawa <sawa_naoyuki-1@yahoo.co.jp>
303 Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>
304 Neale Ferguson <neale@mono-cvs.ximian.com>
305 Neil Sharman <neil@cs.mu.oz.au>
306 Nicolas Cannasse <ncannasse@motion-twin.com>
307 Niibe Yutaka <gniibe@fsij.org>
308 Niklas Therning <niklas@therning.org>
309 Noah Lavine <noah.b.lavine@gmail.com>
310 Nobuyuki Hikichi <hikichi@sra.co.jp>
311 Oliver Kurth <oliver.kurth@innominate.com>
312 Ondrej Bilka <neleai@seznam.cz>
313 Paolo Molaro <lupus@ximian.com>
314 Parag Patel <parag@netcom.com>
315 Patrick Bridges <bridges@cs.arizona.edu>
316 Patrick C. Beard <beard@netscape.com>
317 Patrick Doyle <doylep@eecg.toronto.edu>
318 Paul Bone <paul@bone.id.au>
319 Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
321 Paul Nash <paulnash@wildseed.com>
322 Per Bothner <per@bothner.com>
323 Peter Bigot <bigotp@acm.org>
324 Peter Budai <peterbudai@hotmail.com>
325 Peter Chubb <peterc@sour.sw.oz.au>
326 Peter Colson <pcolson@connexus.net.au>
327 Peter Housel <housel@acm.org>
328 Peter Monks <pmonks@iname.com>
329 Peter Ross <pro@missioncriticalit.com>
330 Peter Seebach <seebs@taniemarie.solon.com>
331 Peter Wang <novalazy@gmail.com>
332 Petr Krajca <krajcap@inf.upol.cz>
333 Petr Salinger <Petr.Salinger@seznam.cz>
334 Petter Urkedal <paurkedal@gmail.com>
335 Philip Brown <phil@opencsw.org>
336 Philipp Tomsich <phil@complang.tuwien.ac.at>
337 Philippe Queinnec <queinnec@enseeiht.fr>
338 Phillip Musumeci <p.musumeci@ieee.org>
339 Phong Vo <kpv@research.att.com>
341 Pontus Rydin <P.Rydin@astea.se>
342 Radek Polak <psonek2@seznam.cz>
343 Rainer Orth <ro@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de>
344 Ranjit Mathew <rmathew@gcc.gnu.org>
345 Rauli Ruohonen <rruohone@cc.hut.fi>
346 Regis Cridlig <Regis.Cridlig@cl.cam.ac.uk>
347 Reimer Behrends <behrends@gmail.com>
348 Renaud Blanch <renaud.blanch@lri.fr>
350 Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu>
352 Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
353 Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
354 Richard Sandiford <rsandifo@nildram.co.uk>
355 Richard Zidlicky <Richard.Zidlicky@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
356 Rob Haack <rhaack@polaris.unm.edu>
357 Robert Brazile <brazile@diamond.bbn.com>
358 Rodrigo Kumpera <kumpera@gmail.com>
359 Roger Sayle <roger@eyesopen.com>
360 Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
361 Roman Hodek <Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
362 Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
363 Romano Paolo Tenca <rotenca@telvia.it>
364 Rutger Ovidius <ovidr@users.sourceforge.net>
365 Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19@gmail.com>
366 Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org>
367 Salvador Eduardo Tropea <salvador@inti.gov.ar>
368 Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
369 Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org>
370 Scott Ananian <cananian@lesser-magoo.lcs.mit.edu>
371 Scott Schwartz <schwartz@groucho.cse.psu.edu>
372 Shawn Wagner <shawnw@speakeasy.org>
373 Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
374 Shiro Kawai <shiro@lava.net>
375 Simon Gornall <simon@gornall.net>
376 Simon Posnjak <simon.posnjak@siol.net>
377 Slava Sysoltsev <Viatcheslav.Sysoltsev@h-d-gmbh.de>
378 Sorawee Porncharoenwase <sorawee.pwase@gmail.com>
379 Stefan Ring <stefanrin@gmail.com>
380 Stefano Rivera <stefano@rivera.za.net>
381 Sugioka Toshinobu <sugioka@itonet.co.jp>
382 Suzuki Toshiya <mpsuzuki@hiroshima-u.ac.jp>
383 Sven Hartrumpf <Sven.Hartrumpf@fernuni-hagen.de>
384 Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
385 Takis Psarogiannakopoulos <takis@xfree86.org>
386 Tatsuya Bizenn <bizenn@visha.org>
387 Tautvydas Zilys <tautvydas.zilys@gmail.com>
388 Terrell Russell <terrellrussell@gmail.com>
389 Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
390 Thomas Funke <thf@zelator.in-berlin.de>
391 Thomas Klausner <tk@giga.or.at>
392 Thomas Linder Puls <thomas_linder_puls@hotmail.com>
393 Thomas Maier <Thomas.Maier@uni-kassel.de>
394 Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>
395 Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org>
396 Tilman Vogel <Tilman.Vogel@web.de>
397 Tim Bingham <tjb@zko.dec.com>
398 Timothy N. Newsham <newsham@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu>
399 Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
400 Tommaso Tagliapietra <tommaso.tagliapietra@enel.it>
401 Toralf Foerster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
402 Toshio Endo <endo@is.titech.ac.jp>
403 Tsugutomo Enami <tsugutomo.enami@jp.sony.com>
404 Tum Nguyen <tum@veridicus.com>
405 Tyson Dowd <trd@cs.mu.oz.au>
406 Uchiyama Yasushi <uch@netbsd.org>
407 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
408 Ulrich Weigand <Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com>
409 Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
410 Vernon Lee <scorpion@rice.edu>
411 Victor Ivrii <ivrii@math.toronto.edu>
412 Victor Romero <romerosanchezv@gmail.com>
413 Vitaly Magerya <vmagerya@gmail.com>
414 Vladimir Tsichevski <wowa@jet.msk.su>
415 Walter Bright <walter@walterbright.com>
416 Walter Underwood <wunder@hp-ses.sde.hp.com>
417 Wilson Ho <how@ivy.ucdavis.edu>
418 Wink Saville <wink@saville.com>
419 Wookey <wookey@wookware.org>
420 Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com>
421 Xiaokun Zhu <xiaokun@aero.gla.ac.uk>
422 Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>
423 Yannis Bres <Yannis@bres.name>
424 Yuki Okumura <mjt@cltn.org>
425 Yusuke Suzuki <utatane.tea@gmail.com>
426 Yvan Roux <yvan.roux@linaro.org>
427 Zach Saw <zach.saw@gmail.com>
429 Zhong Shao <zhong.shao@yale.edu>
430 Zoltan Varga <vargaz@gmail.com>
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