[snprbob86]

Saving somebody 10 seconds, here is Bacon's paper:

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~cs415/reading/bacon-garbage.pdf

[apu]

Adding the initial http links it automatically:

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~cs415/reading/bacon-garbage.pdf

[snprbob86]

Heh, fixed mine to save somebody yet one more second. Wrote this comment to waste that second that I saved.

That said, I'm reading this paper now. It's absolutely fascinating and very approachable. Well worth checking out.

[profquail]

The link is returning a 403 now (perhaps too much traffic from this article).

For anyone that still wants to read it, here's a citation -- you can easily find a copy by searching for the title of the paper.

  Bacon, David F., Perry Cheng, and V. T. Rajan.
  "A Unified Theory of Garbage Collection."
  Convergence 6, no. 17 (2004): 32.