Question about garbage collector

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-08-28 23:28, bioinfornatics wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> yesterday i read an article into a french linux journal that in some
> years garbage collector will disapear.
>
> Why ? he explain in very very short as:
> --------------------------
> - Moore's law will be not anymore true
> so only memory will continue to increase ( static and volatil )
> - Garbage Collector are not efficient in big memory for some technical
> reason
> - Data to manage will continue to grow big data ant full memory stategy
> will the rule
>
> So Develloper will move to a language where they are no garbage collector.
> --------------------------
>
> In bioinformatic we work with big data or full memory stategy often and
> that will not stop. So what think D garbage cllector's dev about this ?

There has been some discussion about implementing ARC (Automatic 
Reference Counting) in the compiler.

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/Jacob Carlborg