bench.html">our GC benchmark</a> that was slightly modified to
run multiple concurrent client threads in the same address space.
Each client thread does the same work as the original benchmark, but they share
a heap.
This benchmark involves very little work outside of memory allocation.
This was run with GC 6.0alpha3 on a dual processor Pentium III/500 machine
under Linux 2.2.12.
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Running with a thread-unsafe collector,  the benchmark ran in 9
seconds.  With the simple thread-safe collector,
built with <