title: Hardware Assisted Garbage Collection
body: <p>I was thinking on ways that functional languages could be more tied directly to their hardware and was wondering about any hardware implementations of garbage collection.</p>
  
  <p>This would speed things up significantly as the hardware itself would implicitly handle all collection, rather than the runtime of some environment.</p>
  
  <p>Is this what LISP Machines did? Has there been any further research into this idea? Is this too domain specific?</p>
  
  <p>Thoughts? Objections? Discuss.</p>