Pierre R. Mai <pmai@acm.org> wrote:
+---------------
| ...it is likely that the infirmary generation is larger than
| the 1st level cache.
+---------------

Do you really mean "infirmary" here? Doubtless this is a cross-language
difference in slang, but I'm curious as to the connotations of the word
"infirmary" in your native tongue. In English, an "infirmary" is a hospital
or clinic [a place to take care of sick people].

In the GC literature I've read, the slang term I've most often seen
used for a fixed-location ephemeral allocation area is "nursery" --
in English, a place where infant children (or plants) are cared for
(or grown), which they eventually leave (or are transplanted from),
never to return.


-Rob

p.s. In the U.S., the sequence of educational insitutions is typically
thus: nursery school (or "day care", if there's no explicit educational
component) -> pre-school (a.k.a. kindergarten) -> grammar school -> middle
school (only in a few places) -> high school -> college -> "post-grad"
(after one's bachelor's degree) -> "post-doc" (after a PhD). [And then
"life", one hopes!]

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