Storage management in IBM APL systems
R. Trimble · IBM Systems Journal · 1991
APL systems have traditionally used specialized storage management schemes that avoid storage fragmentation by “garbage collection,” moving live data as needed to collect unused storage into a single area. This was very effective on systems with a small amount of real storage addressed directly. It has become less effective on todays systems with virtual addressing and large amounts of virtual storage. Both traditional schemes of storage management and a recently implemented replacement for them are described. The focus is on implementations for IBM mainframe hardware.