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Chicken Scheme uses a technique called "Cheney on the M.T.A." to implement it's garbage collection (and entire language, really). It's one of the most mind-bending things I've ever heard of.

Here's the article: http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/CheneyMTA.html

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Here is an article discussing the utilization of this technique specifically for CHICKEN scheme.

http://www.more-magic.net/posts/internals-gc.html

This and the paper above were extremely entertaining reads. To the point that I am downloading CHICKEN right now to start exploring. Thank you for those links.

Seconded. That is a great read to help improve your understanding of the C runtime environment (stack frames, longjmp etc).

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