Google Chrome and process-based design

[Christopher Wright]

Tomas Lindquist Olsen wrote:
> Manfred_Nowak wrote:
>> Denis Koroskin wrote:
>>
>>> You can read the whole story at www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/
>>
>> On page 16 they mention "precise GC".
>>
>> -manfred
>>
> 
> Are you suggesting we should start talking about how this could be done 
> in D ?
> 
> -Tomas

A major benefit of a precise GC is that you can turn it into a moving 
GC. Without a precise GC, you might change some random sequences of 
bytes to something else because it looks like a pointer to something you 
moved; not so with a precise GC.