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 David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net>
224 John Ellis <ellis@xerox.parc.com>
225 John Merryweather Cooper <jmerry@mono-cvs.ximian.com>
226 Jon Moore <jonm@apache.org>
227 Jonas Echterhoff <jonas@unity3d.com>
228 Jonathan Bachrach <jonathan@harlequin.com>
229 Jonathan Chambers <jonathan@unity3d.com>
231 Jonathan Pryor <jpryor@novell.com>
232 Josh Peterson <petersonjm1@gmail.com>
233 Joshua Richardson <jric@chegg.com>
234 Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <juanjose.garciaripoll@googlemail.com>
235 Jukka Jylanki <jujjyl@gmail.com>
236 Kai Tietz <ktietz70@googlemail.com>
237 Kaz Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
238 Kazu Hirata <kazu@codesourcery.com>
239 Kazuhiro Inaoka <inaoka.kazuhiro@renesas.com>
240 Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com>
241 Kenjiro Taura <tau@eidos.ic.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
242 Kenneth Schalk <schalk@cadtls.hlo.dec.com>
243 Kevin Kenny <kenny@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
244 Kevin Tew <tewk@racket-lang.org>
245 Kevin Warne <kevinw@direct.ca>
246 Kimura Wataru <kimuraw@i.nifty.jp>
247 Kjetil Matheussen <k.s.matheussen@notam02.no>
248 Klaus Treichel <ktreichel@web.de>
249 Klemens Zwischenbrugger <ka7@la-evento.com>
250 Knut Tvedten <knuttv@ifi.uio.no>
251 Krister Walfridsson <cato@df.lth.se>
252 Kristian Kristensen <kk@cs.aau.dk>
254 Kurt Miller <kurt@intricatesoftware.com>
255 Lars Farm <lars.farm@ite.mh.se>
256 Laurent Morichetti <l_m@pacbell.net>
257 Leonardo Taccari <iamleot@gmail.com>
258 Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com>
259 Loren J. Rittle <rittle@latour.labs.mot.com>
260 Louis Zhuang <louis.zhuang@acm.org>
261 Lucas Meijer <lucas@unity3d.com>
262 Ludovic Courtes <ludo@gnu.org>
263 Maarten Thibaut <mthibaut@cisco.com>
264 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo@gmail.com>
265 Manuel Serrano <serrano@cornas.inria.fr>
266 Marc Recht <recht@netbsd.org>
267 Marco Maggi <marco.maggi-ipsu@poste.it>
268 Marcos Dione <Marcos_David.Dione@sophia.inria.fr>
270 Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
271 Margaret Fleck <mfleck@illinois.edu>
272 Mark Boulter <mboulter@vnet.ibm.com>
273 Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
274 Mark Reichert <markr@sirs.com>
276 Mark Weiser <weiser@ubiq.com>
277 Martin Hirzel <hirzel@cs.colorado.edu>
278 Martin Koeppe <mkoeppe@gmx.de>
279 Martin Tauchmann <martintauchmann@bigfoot.com>
280 Matt Austern <austern@google.com>
281 Matthew Flatt <mflatt@plt-scheme.org>
282 Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
283 Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de>
284 Maurizio Vairani <maurizio.vairani@cloverinformatica.it>
285 Max Mouratov <mmouratov@gmail.com>
286 Maya Rashish <coypu@sdf.org>
287 Melissa O'Neill <oneill@cs.sfu.ca>
288 Michael Arnoldus <chime@proinf.dk>
289 Michael DeRoy <deroymichael@gmail.com>
290 Michael Fox <mfox@cavium.com>
291 Michael Herring <khakionion@gmail.com>
292 Michael Smith <msmith@spinnakernet.com>
293 Michael Spertus <mps@geodesic.com>
294 Michel Schinz <schinz@alphanet.ch>
295 Miguel de Icaza <miguel@gnome.org>
296 Mikael Djurfeldt <mikael@djurfeldt.com>
297 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
298 Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com>
299 Mike McGaughey <mmcg@cs.monash.edu.au>
300 Mike Stump <mrs@windriver.com>
301 Mitch Harris <maharri@uiuc.edu>
302 Mohan Embar <gnustuff@thisiscool.com>
303 Naoyuki Sawa <sawa_naoyuki-1@yahoo.co.jp>
304 Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>
305 Neale Ferguson <neale@mono-cvs.ximian.com>
306 Neil Sharman <neil@cs.mu.oz.au>
307 Nicolas Cannasse <ncannasse@motion-twin.com>
308 Niibe Yutaka <gniibe@fsij.org>
309 Niklas Therning <niklas@therning.org>
310 Noah Lavine <noah.b.lavine@gmail.com>
311 Nobuyuki Hikichi <hikichi@sra.co.jp>
312 Oliver Kurth <oliver.kurth@innominate.com>
313 Ondrej Bilka <neleai@seznam.cz>
314 Paolo Molaro <lupus@ximian.com>
315 Parag Patel <parag@netcom.com>
316 Patrick Bridges <bridges@cs.arizona.edu>
317 Patrick C. Beard <beard@netscape.com>
318 Patrick Doyle <doylep@eecg.toronto.edu>
319 Paul Bone <paul@bone.id.au>
320 Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
322 Paul Nash <paulnash@wildseed.com>
323 Per Bothner <per@bothner.com>
324 Peter Bigot <bigotp@acm.org>
325 Peter Budai <peterbudai@hotmail.com>
326 Peter Chubb <peterc@sour.sw.oz.au>
327 Peter Colson <pcolson@connexus.net.au>
328 Peter Housel <housel@acm.org>
329 Peter Monks <pmonks@iname.com>
330 Peter Ross <pro@missioncriticalit.com>
331 Peter Seebach <seebs@taniemarie.solon.com>
332 Peter Wang <novalazy@gmail.com>
333 Petr Krajca <krajcap@inf.upol.cz>
334 Petr Salinger <Petr.Salinger@seznam.cz>
335 Petter Urkedal <paurkedal@gmail.com>
336 Philip Brown <phil@opencsw.org>
337 Philipp Tomsich <phil@complang.tuwien.ac.at>
338 Philippe Queinnec <queinnec@enseeiht.fr>
339 Phillip Musumeci <p.musumeci@ieee.org>
340 Phong Vo <kpv@research.att.com>
342 Pontus Rydin <P.Rydin@astea.se>
343 Radek Polak <psonek2@seznam.cz>
344 Rainer Orth <ro@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de>
345 Ranjit Mathew <rmathew@gcc.gnu.org>
346 Rauli Ruohonen <rruohone@cc.hut.fi>
347 Regis Cridlig <Regis.Cridlig@cl.cam.ac.uk>
348 Reimer Behrends <behrends@gmail.com>
349 Renaud Blanch <renaud.blanch@lri.fr>
351 Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu>
353 Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
354 Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
355 Richard Sandiford <rsandifo@nildram.co.uk>
356 Richard Zidlicky <Richard.Zidlicky@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
357 Rob Haack <rhaack@polaris.unm.edu>
358 Robert Brazile <brazile@diamond.bbn.com>
359 Rodrigo Kumpera <kumpera@gmail.com>
360 Roger Sayle <roger@eyesopen.com>
361 Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
362 Roman Hodek <Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
363 Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
364 Romano Paolo Tenca <rotenca@telvia.it>
365 Rutger Ovidius <ovidr@users.sourceforge.net>
366 Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19@gmail.com>
367 Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org>
368 Salvador Eduardo Tropea <salvador@inti.gov.ar>
369 Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
370 Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org>
371 Scott Ananian <cananian@lesser-magoo.lcs.mit.edu>
372 Scott Schwartz <schwartz@groucho.cse.psu.edu>
373 Shawn Wagner <shawnw@speakeasy.org>
374 Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
375 Shiro Kawai <shiro@lava.net>
376 Simon Gornall <simon@gornall.net>
377 Simon Posnjak <simon.posnjak@siol.net>
378 Slava Sysoltsev <Viatcheslav.Sysoltsev@h-d-gmbh.de>
379 Sorawee Porncharoenwase <sorawee.pwase@gmail.com>
380 ssrlive <ssrlivebox@gmail.com>
381 Stefan Ring <stefanrin@gmail.com>
382 Stefano Rivera <stefano@rivera.za.net>
383 Sugioka Toshinobu <sugioka@itonet.co.jp>
384 Suzuki Toshiya <mpsuzuki@hiroshima-u.ac.jp>
385 Sven Hartrumpf <Sven.Hartrumpf@fernuni-hagen.de>
386 Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
387 Takis Psarogiannakopoulos <takis@xfree86.org>
388 Tatsuya Bizenn <bizenn@visha.org>
389 Tautvydas Zilys <tautvydas.zilys@gmail.com>
390 Terrell Russell <terrellrussell@gmail.com>
391 Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
392 Thomas Funke <thf@zelator.in-berlin.de>
393 Thomas Klausner <tk@giga.or.at>
394 Thomas Linder Puls <thomas_linder_puls@hotmail.com>
395 Thomas Maier <Thomas.Maier@uni-kassel.de>
396 Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>
397 Thomas Thiriez <thomas@twistedwave.com>
398 Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org>
399 Tilman Vogel <Tilman.Vogel@web.de>
400 Tim Bingham <tjb@zko.dec.com>
401 Timothy N. Newsham <newsham@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu>
402 Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
403 Tommaso Tagliapietra <tommaso.tagliapietra@enel.it>
404 Toralf Foerster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
405 Toshio Endo <endo@is.titech.ac.jp>
406 Tsugutomo Enami <tsugutomo.enami@jp.sony.com>
407 Tum Nguyen <tum@veridicus.com>
408 Tyson Dowd <trd@cs.mu.oz.au>
409 Uchiyama Yasushi <uch@netbsd.org>
410 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
411 Ulrich Weigand <Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com>
412 Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
413 Vernon Lee <scorpion@rice.edu>
414 Victor Ivrii <ivrii@math.toronto.edu>
415 Victor Romero <romerosanchezv@gmail.com>
416 Vitaly Magerya <vmagerya@gmail.com>
417 Vladimir Tsichevski <wowa@jet.msk.su>
418 Walter Bright <walter@walterbright.com>
419 Walter Underwood <wunder@hp-ses.sde.hp.com>
420 Wilson Ho <how@ivy.ucdavis.edu>
421 Wink Saville <wink@saville.com>
422 Wookey <wookey@wookware.org>
423 Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com>
424 Xiaokun Zhu <xiaokun@aero.gla.ac.uk>
425 Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>
426 Yannis Bres <Yannis@bres.name>
427 Yuki Okumura <mjt@cltn.org>
428 Yusuke Suzuki <utatane.tea@gmail.com>
429 Yvan Roux <yvan.roux@linaro.org>
430 Zach Saw <zach.saw@gmail.com>
432 Zhong Shao <zhong.shao@yale.edu>
433 Zoltan Varga <vargaz@gmail.com>
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