[OT] GC without paging

Ingo Oeser ioe-news at rameria.de
Sun Sep 2 03:32:20 PDT 2007


Sean Kelly wrote:

> Yup, it's a good technique.  About the only drawback is that it requires
> VMM integration to work, so it isn't terribly portable.  However, such a
> GC could fall back on normal mark/sweep if run on a platform it doesn't
> support.

Even better: D defines that a GC must EXIST, not what kind of GC you 
have to implement and how it must work :-)

And your nice Tango library makes it even run time switchable AFAICS.

So, people can really play here and you guys did a damn good design here!


Best Regards

Ingo Oeser



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