The problem with the D GC

Lutger lutger.blijdestijn at gmail.com
Mon Jan 8 05:00:47 PST 2007


Oskar Linde wrote:
> After having fought a while with D programs with runaway memory leaks, 
> I've unfortunately had to come to the conclusion that the D GC is not 
> ready for production use. The problem is what I'd call "spurious 
> pointers". That is random data (strings, numbers, image data, audio or 
> whatever) appearing to the GC to be full of pointers to all over the 
> memory space.
....

Wow that is so bad. I thought it has been mentioned this will not be a 
problem in practice but it apparently is.




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