40. The RTVMM of claim 24 wherein the marking and copying processes for a particular garbage collection cycle have been completed, the implementing step comprising the steps: causing all objects needing finalization to be transferred from a list of finalizable objects to a finalizee list; causing the transferred objects residing in mark-and-sweep space to be placed on a scan list; causing the transferred objects residing in from-space to be placed on a copy list.
40. The RTVMM of claim 24 wherein the marking and copying processes for a particular garbage collection cycle have been completed, the implementing step comprising the steps: causing all objects needing finalization to be transferred from a list of finalizable objects to a finalizee list; causing the transferred objects residing in mark-and-sweep space to be placed on a scan list; causing the transferred objects residing in from-space to be placed on a copy list. 41. The RTVMM of claim 40 wherein the marking and copying processes for a particular garbage collection cycle have been completed, the implementing step comprising the steps: causing an object from a list of finalizable objects to be transferred to a finalizee list if the object has not been marked or if the object is a from-space object that has not been copied into to-space, the object being placed on the copy list and space being allocated in to-space if the object resides in from-space, the object being marked by being placed on the scan list if the object resides in mark-and-sweep space.