OSNews article about C++09 degenerates into C++ vs. D discussion

Bill Baxter dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com
Sun Nov 19 19:03:18 PST 2006


Julio César Carrascal Urquijo wrote:
> Mars wrote:
>> http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=16526
> 
> This is one thing that bothers me with the current GC. If you store data 
> with a lot of entropy in an array (Sound, encrypted data, sensor data, 
> etc...) you start to experience memory leaks because the GC starts to 
> see the data as references to other objects.

This is the kind of comment that scares me.
How does one reconcile this with Walter's comment "The GC has been 
pretty heavily tested. It's 6 years old, and it's stood up extremely 
well."
   --(digitalmars.com digitalmars.D:43916)

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