Quantifying the Performance of Garbage Collection vs. Explicit Memory Management

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:23:53 +0200, Craig Black <cblack at ara.com> wrote:

>
> I don't think the *nix kernel recompile issue should be a show stopper.  I
> would be very happy with a prototype that was Windows only.  Once we have it
> working and can measure the benefits, then tackle the *nix issues.  A fast
> GC would really help D to be competitive.  It would be nice if the D
> community was leading GC innovation (like Tango just did with the XML
> parser).

Actually, the article gave me an interesting idea of a generational GC. I may post a prototype today (Windows-only for now).

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