The new Mono GC

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2010-09-04 07:01, Walter Bright wrote:
> Sean Kelly wrote:
>> I think write barriers in this context are calls out to the GC to
>> notify it
>> of reference changes, and these are generated by the compiler. A language
>> like D that can call inline ASM, external C routines, etc, simply can't
>> provide that guarantee. SafeD maybe.
>
> Such write barriers are a performance problem, too.

What I've read about garbage collection techniques I got the impression 
that you could implement a better and more efficient collector with 
write barriers that would outweigh the performance loss that comes with 
the barriers.

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/Jacob Carlborg