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We use the same technique of forming a transitive closure as the incremental
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collector does to find reachable objects, seeding the list with some global
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objects and the current frame of each stack.
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objects and the currently executing frames.
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This phase moves objects to the `visited` space, as follows:
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1. Pop an object from the set and move it to the `visited` space
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2. For each object directly reachable from that object:
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* If it is not already in `visited` space and it is a GC object,
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then add it to the working set
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add it to the working set
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Before each increment of collection is performed, the working set is updated to
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include any new stack frames that have been created since the last increment.
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Before each increment of collection is performed, the stacks are scanned
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to check for any new stack frames that have been created since the last
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increment. All objects directly referred to from those stack frames are
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added to the working set.
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Then the above algorithm is repeated, starting from step 2.
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currently in. Instead, when that's needed, ad hoc tricks (like the
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`NEXT_MASK_UNREACHABLE` flag) are employed.
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Optimization: delayed untracking containers
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Optimization: delayed untracking of containers
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Certain types of containers cannot participate in a reference cycle, and so do
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not need to be tracked by the garbage collector. Untracking these objects

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