Comment by mafribe

   Thirty years of good research

Historical aside: the first paper on GC is [1] which was written in 1963, by Minsky, who's now famous for AI research. So we have GC research for > 50 years.

[1] M. L. Minsky, A LISP Garbage Collector Algorithm Using Serial Secondary Storage. https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/6080/AIM-058....