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ISMM, http://dl.acm.org/event.cfm?id=RE149, is also likely to have papers on garbage collection. The table of contents from 2016: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2926697


Nice! There's a paper in there called 'Block-free concurrent GC: stack scanning and copying' which opens by claiming that "on-the-fly Garbage Collectors (GCs) are the state-of-the-art concurrent GC algorithms today". I'd never heard of on-the-fly GC, so i've learned something!

However, on googling, i find that Edsger Dijkstra wrote about it in 1975:

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD05xx/E...

Hey, maybe that's old enough that Go can use it?




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