@InProceedings{boehm93:_infer_type_maps_garbag_collec,
  author =	 {Hans Boehm and Zhong Shao},
  title =	 {Inferring Type Maps during Garbage Collection},
  booktitle =	 {Proc. OOPSLA'93 Workshop on Memory Management and
                  Garbage Collection},
  year =	 1993,
  address =	 {Washington, DC},
  month =	 {Sept},
  abstract =	 {Conservative garbage collectors are designed to
                  operate in environments that do not provide
                  sufficient information on the location of
                  pointers. Instead of relying on compiler provided
                  information on the location of pointers, they assume
                  that any bit pattern that could be a valid pointer
                  in fact is a valid pointer. This, however, can lead
                  to inefficiencies and pointer misidentifications. In
                  this position paper, we propose a simple runtime
                  method that dynamically infers the pointer layout
                  information during the garbage collection time. The
                  inferred information might be used to make the
                  subsequent passes of garbage collection run more
                  efficiently.}
}