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

[John Reimer]

On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 19:03:18 -0800, Bill Baxter  
<dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com> wrote:

> 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)
>
> --bb


The GC maybe reliable for what it does, but it's certainly not optimal.  I  
think Walter has admitted that in the past also.

-JJR