DConf 2013 Day 2 Talk 5: A Precise Garbage Collector for D by Rainer Schütze

[bearophile]

Andrei Alexandrescu:

> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1fpw2r/dconf_2013_day_2_talk_5_a_precise_garbage/

Another thing to keep in account while designing a more precise 
garbage collection is a possible special casing for Algebraic 
(and Variant, and more generally for some standardized kind of 
tagged union):

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5057

In an Algebraic there is run-time information for the GC to 
decide if inside it there are pointers to follow or not. It's 
mostly a matter of letting the GC recognize and use such 
information.

Bye,
bearophile