Visual Studio Community and .NET Open Source

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 21 November 2014 at 08:02:07 UTC, philippecp wrote:
> .Net does have a pretty damn good GC. It is both a moving 
> garbage
> collector (improves locality, reduces heap fragmentation and
> allows for memory allocation to be a single pointer operation)
> and a generational garbage collector (reduces garbage collection
> cost by leveraging heuristic that most collected objects are
> usually very young). I believe their server GC is even 
> concurrent
> to avoid long stop the world pauses.
>
> The problem is I'm not sure how much of those principles can be
> applied to D. I can see moving objects being problematic given
> that D supports unions. Another thing to consider is that .Net's
> GC is the results of many man years of full time work on a 
> single
> platform, while D is mostly done by volunteers in their spare
> time for many platforms. It would probably require a lot of work
> to port, unless you're volunteering yourself for that work;)
>
> ...


The official .NET runs on x86, x64, ARM (including cortex 
variants), MIPS.

It scales from embedded hardware running with 512KB of flash and 
128KB of RAM (http://www.netmf.com/get-started/), all the way up 
to Azure deployments.

http://www.microsoft.com/net/multiple-platform-support

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Paulo