The new Mono GC

[Sean Kelly]

Justin Johansson Wrote:

> On 02/09/10 08:03, bearophile wrote:
> > Is it possible to try to replace (or just perform experiments) the D GC with this one?
> >
> > http://developers.sones.de/2010/09/01/taking-the-new-and-shiny-mono-simple-generational-garbage-collector-mono-sgen-for-a-walk/
> >
> > Delegating the creation and management of the D GC to someone else (the Mono team) sounds like a possible way to have a good enough GC.
> >
> > Bye,
> > bearophile
> 
> Can you elucidate perhaps a little bit about the theory of the Mono GC
> and why it might be interesting.  Some hypotheses about what makes one
> GC better than another would be nice topics for discussion.

It sounds pretty nice, but this bullet point could be a problem:

* Uses write barriers to min i mize the work done on minor collections.