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 Dimitris Vyzovitis <vyzo@media.mit.edu>
142 Dimitry Andric <dim@freebsd.org>
143 Djamel Magri <djamel.magri@googlemail.com>
144 Doug Kaufman <dkaufman@rahul.net>
145 Doug Moen <doug@moens.org>
146 Douglas Steel <doug@wg.icl.co.uk>
147 Eli Barzilay <eli@racket-lang.org>
148 Elijah Taylor <elijahtaylor@google.com>
149 Elvenlord Elrond <elrond@samba-tng.org>
151 Eric Benson <eb@kaleida.com>
152 Eric Holk <eric.holk@gmail.com>
153 Erik M. Bray <erik.bray@lri.fr>
155 Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>
156 Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.oz.au>
157 Franklin Chen <chen@adi.com>
158 Fred Gilham <gilham@csl.sri.com>
160 Friedrich Dominicus <friedrichdominicus@googlemail.com>
161 Gabor Drescher <gabor.drescher@cs.fau.de>
162 Gary Leavens <leavens@eecs.ucf.edu>
163 Geoff Norton <grompf@sublimeintervention.com>
164 George Talbot <Gtalbot@ansarisbio.com>
166 Glauco Masotti <glauco.masotti@libero.it>
167 Grzegorz Jakacki <jakacki@acm.org>
168 Gustavo Giraldez <ggiraldez@manas.com.ar>
169 Gustavo Rodriguez-Rivera <grr@cs.purdue.edu>
170 H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
171 Hamayama <hamay1010@gmail.com>
172 Hannes Mehnert <hannes@mehnert.org>
173 Hanno Boeck <hanno@gentoo.org>
174 Hans Boehm <boehm@acm.org>
175 Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@axis.com>
176 Henning Makholm <Henning@octoshape.com>
177 Henrik Theiling <theiling@absint.com>
178 Hironori Sakamoto <hsaka@mth.biglobe.ne.jp>
179 Hiroshi Kawashima <kei@arch.sony.co.jp>
180 Hiroshi Yokota <yokota@netlab.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp>
181 Hubert Garavel <Hubert.Garavel@imag.fr>
182 Iain Sandoe <developer@sandoe-acoustics.co.uk>
183 Ian Piumarta <piumarta@prof.inria.fr>
184 Ian Searle <ians@eskimo.com>
185 Igor Khavkine <i_khavki@alcor.concordia.ca>
186 Ivan Demakov <ivan@tgrad.nsk.su>
187 Ivan Maidanski <ivmai@mail.ru>
188 Ivan R <iarspider@gmail.com>
189 Jaap Boender <jaapb@netbsd.org>
190 Jack Andrews <effbiae@gmail.com>
191 Jacob Navia <jacob.navia@jacob.remcomp.fr>
192 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
193 James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
195 Jan Alexander Steffens <jan.steffens@gmail.com>
196 Jan Wielemaker <J.Wielemaker@cs.vu.nl>
197 Jani Kajala <jani@sumea.com>
198 Jared McNeill <jmcneill@NetBSD.org>
199 Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse <jasper@openbsd.org>
200 Jay Krell <jaykrell@microsoft.com>
202 Jean-Claude Beaudoin <jean.claude.beaudoin@gmail.com>
203 Jean-Daniel Fekete <fekete@cs.umd.edu>
204 Jeff Sturm <jsturm@one-point.com>
205 Jeffrey Hsu <hsu@soda.berkeley.edu>
207 Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
208 Jesper Peterson <jep@mtiame.mtia.oz.au>
210 Jesse Jones <jesjones@mindspring.com>
211 Jesse Rosenstock <jmr@ugcs.caltech.edu>
213 Jie Liu <lj8175@gmail.com>
214 Jim Marshall <jim.marshall@wbemsolutions.com>
215 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
216 Joao Abecasis <joao@abecasis.name>
217 Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
218 Johannes Schmidt <jschmidt@avtrex.com>
219 Johannes Totz <jtotz@ic.ac.uk>
220 John Bowman <bowman@ualberta.ca>
221 John Clements <clements@brinkerhoff.org>
222 John Ellis <ellis@xerox.parc.com>
223 John Merryweather Cooper <jmerry@mono-cvs.ximian.com>
224 Jon Moore <jonm@apache.org>
225 Jonas Echterhoff <jonas@unity3d.com>
226 Jonathan Bachrach <jonathan@harlequin.com>
227 Jonathan Chambers <jonathan@unity3d.com>
229 Jonathan Pryor <jpryor@novell.com>
230 Josh Peterson <petersonjm1@gmail.com>
231 Joshua Richardson <jric@chegg.com>
232 Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <juanjose.garciaripoll@googlemail.com>
233 Jukka Jylanki <jujjyl@gmail.com>
234 Kai Tietz <ktietz70@googlemail.com>
235 Kaz Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
236 Kazu Hirata <kazu@codesourcery.com>
237 Kazuhiro Inaoka <inaoka.kazuhiro@renesas.com>
238 Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com>
239 Kenjiro Taura <tau@eidos.ic.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
240 Kenneth Schalk <schalk@cadtls.hlo.dec.com>
241 Kevin Kenny <kenny@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
242 Kevin Tew <tewk@racket-lang.org>
243 Kevin Warne <kevinw@direct.ca>
244 Kimura Wataru <kimuraw@i.nifty.jp>
245 Kjetil Matheussen <k.s.matheussen@notam02.no>
246 Klaus Treichel <ktreichel@web.de>
247 Klemens Zwischenbrugger <ka7@la-evento.com>
248 Knut Tvedten <knuttv@ifi.uio.no>
249 Krister Walfridsson <cato@df.lth.se>
250 Kristian Kristensen <kk@cs.aau.dk>
252 Kurt Miller <kurt@intricatesoftware.com>
253 Lars Farm <lars.farm@ite.mh.se>
254 Laurent Morichetti <l_m@pacbell.net>
255 Leonardo Taccari <iamleot@gmail.com>
256 Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com>
257 Loren J. Rittle <rittle@latour.labs.mot.com>
258 Louis Zhuang <louis.zhuang@acm.org>
259 Lucas Meijer <lucas@unity3d.com>
260 Ludovic Courtes <ludo@gnu.org>
261 Maarten Thibaut <mthibaut@cisco.com>
262 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo@gmail.com>
263 Manuel Serrano <serrano@cornas.inria.fr>
264 Marc Recht <recht@netbsd.org>
265 Marco Maggi <marco.maggi-ipsu@poste.it>
266 Marcos Dione <Marcos_David.Dione@sophia.inria.fr>
268 Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
269 Margaret Fleck <mfleck@illinois.edu>
270 Mark Boulter <mboulter@vnet.ibm.com>
271 Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
272 Mark Reichert <markr@sirs.com>
274 Mark Weiser <weiser@ubiq.com>
275 Martin Hirzel <hirzel@cs.colorado.edu>
276 Martin Koeppe <mkoeppe@gmx.de>
277 Martin Tauchmann <martintauchmann@bigfoot.com>
278 Matt Austern <austern@google.com>
279 Matthew Flatt <mflatt@plt-scheme.org>
280 Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
281 Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de>
282 Maurizio Vairani <maurizio.vairani@cloverinformatica.it>
283 Max Mouratov <mmouratov@gmail.com>
284 Maya Rashish <coypu@sdf.org>
285 Melissa O'Neill <oneill@cs.sfu.ca>
286 Michael Arnoldus <chime@proinf.dk>
287 Michael DeRoy <deroymichael@gmail.com>
288 Michael Fox <mfox@cavium.com>
289 Michael Herring <khakionion@gmail.com>
290 Michael Smith <msmith@spinnakernet.com>
291 Michael Spertus <mps@geodesic.com>
292 Michel Schinz <schinz@alphanet.ch>
293 Miguel de Icaza <miguel@gnome.org>
294 Mikael Djurfeldt <mikael@djurfeldt.com>
295 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
296 Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com>
297 Mike McGaughey <mmcg@cs.monash.edu.au>
298 Mike Stump <mrs@windriver.com>
299 Mitch Harris <maharri@uiuc.edu>
300 Mohan Embar <gnustuff@thisiscool.com>
301 Naoyuki Sawa <sawa_naoyuki-1@yahoo.co.jp>
302 Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>
303 Neale Ferguson <neale@mono-cvs.ximian.com>
304 Neil Sharman <neil@cs.mu.oz.au>
305 Nicolas Cannasse <ncannasse@motion-twin.com>
306 Niibe Yutaka <gniibe@fsij.org>
307 Niklas Therning <niklas@therning.org>
308 Noah Lavine <noah.b.lavine@gmail.com>
309 Nobuyuki Hikichi <hikichi@sra.co.jp>
310 Oliver Kurth <oliver.kurth@innominate.com>
311 Ondrej Bilka <neleai@seznam.cz>
312 Paolo Molaro <lupus@ximian.com>
313 Parag Patel <parag@netcom.com>
314 Patrick Bridges <bridges@cs.arizona.edu>
315 Patrick C. Beard <beard@netscape.com>
316 Patrick Doyle <doylep@eecg.toronto.edu>
317 Paul Bone <paul@bone.id.au>
318 Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
320 Paul Nash <paulnash@wildseed.com>
321 Per Bothner <per@bothner.com>
322 Peter Bigot <bigotp@acm.org>
323 Peter Budai <peterbudai@hotmail.com>
324 Peter Chubb <peterc@sour.sw.oz.au>
325 Peter Colson <pcolson@connexus.net.au>
326 Peter Housel <housel@acm.org>
327 Peter Monks <pmonks@iname.com>
328 Peter Ross <pro@missioncriticalit.com>
329 Peter Seebach <seebs@taniemarie.solon.com>
330 Peter Wang <novalazy@gmail.com>
331 Petr Krajca <krajcap@inf.upol.cz>
332 Petr Salinger <Petr.Salinger@seznam.cz>
333 Petter Urkedal <paurkedal@gmail.com>
334 Philip Brown <phil@opencsw.org>
335 Philipp Tomsich <phil@complang.tuwien.ac.at>
336 Philippe Queinnec <queinnec@enseeiht.fr>
337 Phillip Musumeci <p.musumeci@ieee.org>
338 Phong Vo <kpv@research.att.com>
340 Pontus Rydin <P.Rydin@astea.se>
341 Radek Polak <psonek2@seznam.cz>
342 Rainer Orth <ro@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de>
343 Ranjit Mathew <rmathew@gcc.gnu.org>
344 Rauli Ruohonen <rruohone@cc.hut.fi>
345 Regis Cridlig <Regis.Cridlig@cl.cam.ac.uk>
346 Reimer Behrends <behrends@gmail.com>
347 Renaud Blanch <renaud.blanch@lri.fr>
349 Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu>
351 Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
352 Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
353 Richard Sandiford <rsandifo@nildram.co.uk>
354 Richard Zidlicky <Richard.Zidlicky@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
355 Rob Haack <rhaack@polaris.unm.edu>
356 Robert Brazile <brazile@diamond.bbn.com>
357 Rodrigo Kumpera <kumpera@gmail.com>
358 Roger Sayle <roger@eyesopen.com>
359 Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
360 Roman Hodek <Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
361 Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
362 Romano Paolo Tenca <rotenca@telvia.it>
363 Rutger Ovidius <ovidr@users.sourceforge.net>
364 Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19@gmail.com>
365 Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org>
366 Salvador Eduardo Tropea <salvador@inti.gov.ar>
367 Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
368 Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org>
369 Scott Ananian <cananian@lesser-magoo.lcs.mit.edu>
370 Scott Schwartz <schwartz@groucho.cse.psu.edu>
371 Shawn Wagner <shawnw@speakeasy.org>
372 Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
373 Shiro Kawai <shiro@lava.net>
374 Simon Gornall <simon@gornall.net>
375 Simon Posnjak <simon.posnjak@siol.net>
376 Slava Sysoltsev <Viatcheslav.Sysoltsev@h-d-gmbh.de>
377 Stefan Ring <stefanrin@gmail.com>
378 Stefano Rivera <stefano@rivera.za.net>
379 Sugioka Toshinobu <sugioka@itonet.co.jp>
380 Suzuki Toshiya <mpsuzuki@hiroshima-u.ac.jp>
381 Sven Hartrumpf <Sven.Hartrumpf@fernuni-hagen.de>
382 Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
383 Takis Psarogiannakopoulos <takis@xfree86.org>
384 Tatsuya Bizenn <bizenn@visha.org>
385 Tautvydas Zilys <tautvydas.zilys@gmail.com>
386 Terrell Russell <terrellrussell@gmail.com>
387 Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
388 Thomas Funke <thf@zelator.in-berlin.de>
389 Thomas Klausner <tk@giga.or.at>
390 Thomas Linder Puls <thomas_linder_puls@hotmail.com>
391 Thomas Maier <Thomas.Maier@uni-kassel.de>
392 Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>
393 Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org>
394 Tilman Vogel <Tilman.Vogel@web.de>
395 Tim Bingham <tjb@zko.dec.com>
396 Timothy N. Newsham <newsham@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu>
397 Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
398 Tommaso Tagliapietra <tommaso.tagliapietra@enel.it>
399 Toralf Foerster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
400 Toshio Endo <endo@is.titech.ac.jp>
401 Tsugutomo Enami <tsugutomo.enami@jp.sony.com>
402 Tum Nguyen <tum@veridicus.com>
403 Tyson Dowd <trd@cs.mu.oz.au>
404 Uchiyama Yasushi <uch@netbsd.org>
405 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
406 Ulrich Weigand <Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com>
407 Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
408 Vernon Lee <scorpion@rice.edu>
409 Victor Ivrii <ivrii@math.toronto.edu>
410 Victor Romero <romerosanchezv@gmail.com>
411 Vitaly Magerya <vmagerya@gmail.com>
412 Vladimir Tsichevski <wowa@jet.msk.su>
413 Walter Bright <walter@walterbright.com>
414 Walter Underwood <wunder@hp-ses.sde.hp.com>
415 Wilson Ho <how@ivy.ucdavis.edu>
416 Wink Saville <wink@saville.com>
417 Wookey <wookey@wookware.org>
418 Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com>
419 Xiaokun Zhu <xiaokun@aero.gla.ac.uk>
420 Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>
421 Yannis Bres <Yannis@bres.name>
422 Yuki Okumura <mjt@cltn.org>
423 Yusuke Suzuki <utatane.tea@gmail.com>
424 Yvan Roux <yvan.roux@linaro.org>
425 Zach Saw <zach.saw@gmail.com>
427 Zhong Shao <zhong.shao@yale.edu>
428 Zoltan Varga <vargaz@gmail.com>
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