Go 1.5

[Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 18 September 2015 at 19:26:27 UTC, Rory wrote:
> The new GC in Go 1.5 seems interesting. What they say about is 
> certainly interesting.
>
> http://blog.golang.org/go15gc
>
> "To create a garbage collector for the next decade, we turned 
> to an algorithm from decades ago. Go's new garbage collector is 
> a concurrent, tri-color, mark-sweep collector, an idea first 
> proposed by Dijkstra in 1978."

I sometimes wonder - and please forgive me my ignorance, because 
I'm not a GC expert at all - if it would be possible to create a 
system where the created objects know their own life spans and 
destroy themselves, once they are no longer used. Like the cells 
in our bodies.