Is Phobos's Garbage Collector utterly broken? (Phobos vs Tango)

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:08:16 +0300, Vladimir Panteleev <thecybershadow at gmail.com> wrote:

> I initially wrote it to try to find a memory leak in Tango's GC (which was actually fixed at some point).

Turns out it's still there, and it's the old "binary data" issue with pointer-searching GCs, which was fixed in D/Phobos 1.001 by making the GC type-aware. Check out the attached sample programs for a simple example - the Tango version can't know there are no pointers in its GrowBuffer's data, and thus leaks like crazy, while the Phobos version stays at 13MB.

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Best regards,
  Vladimir                          mailto:thecybershadow at gmail.com
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