A smaller GC benchmark

[Bruce Adams]

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:34:20 -0000, Robert Fraser  
<fraserofthenight at gmail.com> wrote:

> bearophile wrote:
>> 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, 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
>
> I know it could be relatively easily plugged into Tango since Tango has  
> a pluggable GC interface

I thought D in general was supposed to have a pluggable GC interface.  
Isn't it
part of the language spec?