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Dont Stop the BIBOP Flexible and Ecient Storage Management for DynamicallyTyp ed Languages R Kent Dybvig David Eby and Carl Bruggeman f dybdebybruggemag csindianaedu Indiana University Computer Science Department Technical Rep ort March c Copyright R Kent Dybvig David Eby and Carl Bruggeman Dont Stop the BIBOP Flexible and Ecient Storage Management for DynamicallyTyp ed Languages R Kent Dybvig David Eby and Carl Bruggeman Indiana University Computer Science Department Lindley Hall Blo omington Indiana f dybdebybruggemag csindianaedu Indiana University Computer Science Department Technical Rep ort March Abstract This pap er describ es a storage management system that is exible and ecient The repre sentation of runtime tags yields fast allo cation typ e testing and eld extraction and the memory mo del reduces virtual memory paging during garbage collection The storage man agement system co exists gracefully with other languages runtime systems facilitating the use of multiple languages within a single program No sp ecial supp ort from the op erating sys tem or virtual memory manager is required b eyond the ability to obtain additional memory on demand The system incorp orates a generational garbage collector with a tunable numb er of dyn