A smaller GC benchmark

[renoX]

bearophile a écrit :
> Robert Fraser:
>> I've been wanting for a while to implement a different GC for D
>> taking into account some of the stuff talked about in a few papers
>> I read on non-moving GCs. IMO, D's GCs (Tango & Phobos) are pretty
>> basic, they don't do any sort of sexy trickery.
> 
> I can see people in this newsgroup don't like to try to adapt already
> written code. Is this some bad from of NIH (Not Invented Here)
> syndrome? Maybe you can just take a 5-10-years old GC and adapt it,
> so we can avoid other 10 years of development and have a better GC
> soon (from your and other's comments I presume the Java GC can't be
> adapted to D, but other GCs may be found).
> 
> Note that ShedSkin uses the Bohem GC: 
> http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/ From various tests it
> seems faster than the Phobos GC. Can't it be copied inside Phobos?
> It's well refined, well debugged, it doesn't leak,

I doubt that it truly doesn't leak: conservative GC may always leak 
depending on your program..

> it has something
> like ten years of development, articles written on it, it's used
> often, etc. And it can be used from C too.
> 
> Bye, bearophile

For the rest I agree: reuse is nice.

Regards,
renoX