This is an attempt to acknowledge contributions to the garbage collector. Early contributions also mentioned (duplicated) in ChangeLog file; details of later ones should be in "git log". Currently maintained by Ivan Maidanski. HISTORY - Early versions of this collector were developed as a part of research projects supported in part by the National Science Foundation and the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency. The garbage collector originated as part of the run-time system for the Russell programming language implementation. The first version of the garbage collector was written primarily by Alan Demers. It was then refined and mostly rewritten, primarily by Hans-J. Boehm, at Cornell U., the University of Washington, Rice University (where it was first used for C and assembly code), Xerox PARC, SGI, and HP Labs. However, significant contributions have also been made by many others. Other contributors (my apologies for any omissions): Adam Megacz Adnan Ali Adrian Bunk Adrian Pop Akira Tagoh Alain Novak Alan Dosser Alan J. Demers Alaskan Emily Aleksey Demakov Alessandro Bruni Alex Ronne Petersen Alexander Belchenko Alexander Gavrilov Alexander Herz Alexandr Petrosian Alexandr Shadchin Alexandre Oliva Alexis Laferriere Alistair G. Crooks Allan Hsu Amaury Sechet Andre Leiradella Andreas Jaeger Andreas Tobler Andrei Polushin Andrej Cedilnik Andrew Begel Andrew Buss Andrew Gray Andrew Haley Andrew Horton Andrew McKinlay Andrew Pinski Andrew Stitcher Andrew Stone Andrew Whatson Andy Li Andy Wingo Anselm Baird-Smith Anthony Green Antoine de Maricourt Ari Huttunen Arrigo Triulzi Ashley Bone Assar Westerlund Aurelien Larcher Barry DeFreese Baruch Siach Ben A. Mesander Ben Cottrell Ben Hutchings Ben Maurer Benjamin Lerman Bernd Edlinger Bernd Kuhls Bernie Solomon Bill Janssen Bo Thorsen Bradley D. LaRonde Bradley Smith Brent Benson Brian Alliet Brian Beuning Brian Burton Brian D. Carlstrom Brian F. Dennis Brian J. Cardiff Brian Lewis Bruce A Henderson Bruce Hoult Bruce Mitchener Bruno Haible Bryce McKinlay Burkhard Linke Calvin Buckley Carlos J. Puga Medina Cesar Eduardo Barros Charles Fiterman Charles Mills Chris Dodd Chris Lingard Chris Metcalf Christian Joensson Christian Limpach Christian Thalinger Christian Weisgerber Christoffe Raffali Clay Spence Clement Chigot Colin LeMahieu Craig McDaniel Dai Sato Dan Bonachea Dan Fandrich Dan Sullivan Daniel R. Grayson Danny Smith Darrell Schiebel Dave Barrett Dave Barton Dave Detlefs Dave Korn Dave Love David A. Holland David Ayers David Brownlee David Butenhof David Chase David Daney David Grove David Leonard David Miller David Mosberger David Peroutka David Pickens David Stes David Terei David Van Horn Davide Angelocola Davide Beatrici Demyan Kimitsa Dick Porter Dietmar Planitzer Dima Pasechnik Dimitris Apostolou Dimitris Vyzovitis Dimitry Andric Djamel Magri Doug Kaufman Doug Moen Douglas Steel Eli Barzilay Elijah Taylor Elvenlord Elrond Emmanual Stumpf Eric Benson Eric Holk Erik M. Bray Fabian Ruffy Fabian Thylman Fabrice Fontaine Fergus Henderson Franklin Chen Fred Gilham Fred Stearns Friedrich Dominicus Gabor Drescher Gary Leavens Geoff Norton George Koehler George Talbot Gerard A Allan Glauco Masotti Grzegorz Jakacki Gustavo Giraldez Gustavo Rodriguez-Rivera H.J. Lu Hamayama Hannes Mehnert Hanno Boeck Hans Boehm Hans-Peter Nilsson Henning Makholm Henrik Theiling Hironori Sakamoto Hiroshi Kawashima Hiroshi Yokota Hubert Garavel Iain Sandoe Ian Piumarta Ian Searle Igor Khavkine Ilya Kurdyukov Ivan Demakov Ivan Maidanski Ivan R Jaap Boender Jack Andrews Jacob Navia Jakub Jelinek Jakub Wojciech James Clark James Dominy James Moran Jan Alexander Steffens Jan Wielemaker Jani Kajala Jared McNeill Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse Jay Krell Jean-Baptiste Nivois Jean-Claude Beaudoin Jean-Daniel Fekete Jeaye Wilkerson Jeff Sturm Jeffrey Hsu Jeffrey Mark Siskind Jeremy Fitzhardinge Jesper Peterson Jesse Hull Jesse Jones Jesse Rosenstock Ji-Yong Chung Jie Liu Jim Marshall Jim Meyering Joao Abecasis Joerg Sonnenberger Johannes Schmidt Johannes Totz John Bowman John Clements John David Anglin John Ellis John Ericson John Merryweather Cooper Jon Moore Jonas Echterhoff Jonas Hahnfeld Jonathan Bachrach Jonathan Chambers Jonathan Clark Jonathan Pryor Josh Peterson Joshua Richardson Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll Jukka Jylanki Kai Tietz Kaz Kojima Kazu Hirata Kazuhiro Inaoka Keith Seitz Kenjiro Taura Kenneth Schalk Kevin Kenny Kevin Tew Kevin Warne Kimura Wataru Kjetil Matheussen Klaus Treichel Klemens Zwischenbrugger Knut Tvedten Krister Walfridsson Kristian Kristensen Kristian Larsson Kumar Srikantan Kurt Miller Lars Farm Laurent Morichetti Leonardo Taccari Linas Vepstas Loren J. 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