[jacaetevha]

And (IIRC) much of the JVM's GC and VM work came directly from the Smalltalk world and the Strongtalk guys.

[Uchikoma]

No.JVM GCs (JRockit, Hotspot, IBM) have developed much further than what Smalltalk did. The G1 GC is especially nice.

I found

http://blog.dynatrace.com/2011/05/11/how-garbage-collection-...

a very interesting - and understandable - article.

[agumonkey]

I heard of SELF too.