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Fix a list in GC devdocs #53032

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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions doc/src/devdocs/gc.md
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Expand Up @@ -26,10 +26,10 @@ Julia's pool allocator follows a "tiered" allocation discipline. When requesting
- If it failed claiming a page from `page_pool_lazily_freed`, it will try to claim a page from `the page_pool_clean`, which contains pages which were mmaped on a previous page allocation request but never accessed.

- If it failed claiming a page from `pool_page_clean` and from `page_pool_lazily_freed`, it will try to claim a page
from `page_pool_freed`, which contains pages which have already been madvised by a concurrent sweeper GC thread and whose underlying virtual address can be recycled.
from `page_pool_freed`, which contains pages which have already been madvised by a concurrent sweeper GC thread and whose underlying virtual address can be recycled.

- If it failed in all of the attempts mentioned above, it will mmap a batch of pages, claim one page for itself, and
insert the remaining pages into `page_pool_clean`.
insert the remaining pages into `page_pool_clean`.

![Diagram of tiered pool allocation](./img/gc-tiered-allocation.jpg)

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