Interview with InformIT part 2/3

[Leandro Lucarella]

Walter Bright, el 19 de agosto a las 13:08 me escribiste:
> Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> >With the precise heap scanning patch for DMD the GC can automatically
> >pin memory, because it has enough information to differentiate between
> >real pointers and words which types are not really known, so a block can
> >be moved *only* if is only pointed to by real pointers, otherwise is
> >pinned because we can't update the words with unknown type if we moved
> >that block.
> 
> I know. That's how a mostly copying collector works.

If you know, I guess you agree on the utility of the patch and the
impossibility of implementing a mostly moving collector in D, so I hope
you apply the patch eventually =)

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