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 ### Useful links
 
 * [Plugin for VS Code](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=arsavelev.lsp-lama)
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+### Changes in Lama 1.2
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+* New garbage collector: single-threaded stop-the-world `LISP2` (see GC Handbook for details: [1st edition](https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/rej/gcbook/), [2nd edition](http://gchandbook.org/)) [mark-compact](https://www.memorymanagement.org/glossary/m.html#term-mark-compact).