Clutter collector

Often objects are referenced but not used anymore. We are working on a clutter mechanism that acts as a memory manager to reduce the memory footprint of application and use secondary memory as a paging mechanism.

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3. M. Martinez Peck, N. Bouraqadi, M. Denker, S. Ducasse and L. Fabresse, Experiments with a Fast Object Swapper, Smalltalks 2010, 2010, PDF.
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