How Garbage Collector works?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Borneq" <borneq at antyspam.hidden.pl> wrote in message 
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> Unlike Java, in D there are pointers and structs. Did not prevent it from 
> operation of Garbage Collector? Where is described garbage collection 
> algorithm ?

Most things that are frequently believed to require a sandboxed VM langauge 
like the JVM are misconceptions. There's nothing about pointers that 
prevents garbage collection. The pointers do cause some complication, 
though. For instance, D's GC is a conservative one, and therefore is prone 
to false pointers occasionally preventing an object from being collected.

As for the specifics of D's GC, I don't know much about it. Someone else 
will have to answer that.