Robust, distributed references and acyclic garbage collection
Marc Shapiro, Peter Dickman, David Plainfossé · 1992
We propose efficient, programming language-independent, location-transparent references as a substitute for pointers in distributed applications.These references provide the semantics of normal pointers for both local and distributed, transient and persistent objects.They may be passed in messages between and within nodes using a low-overhead presentation-layer protocol.of thousands of nodes connected using both local and wide-area networks.