Stop-and-copy garbage collection in a Lisp architecture:1 Memory is divided into working and free memory; new objects are allocated in the former. When it is full (depicted), garbage collection is performed: All data structures still in use are located by pointer tracing and copied into consecutive locations in free memory.
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Abelson, Harold; Sussman, Gerald Jay; Sussman, Julie (2016). Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (PDF) (2nd ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts, US: MIT Press. pp. 734–736. ↩