d future or plans for d3
Vladimir Panteleev
vladimir at thecybershadow.net
Sun Dec 18 15:11:21 PST 2011
On Sunday, 18 December 2011 at 23:02:17 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
> It is an unilateral improvement if both options are kept open.
> I don't see a reason to cease support for the current GC model.
I believe that currently the plan does not include providing this
choice.
> Furthermore, a generational GC performs much better than a
> simple mark-sweep GC.
Unless you change the way references work, generational and
"precise" aspects of a GC are orthogonal. Also, D can't have a
completely precise GC as long as it has unions and can pass
managed memory to C code.
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