Discussion on Go and D

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 4/8/12 12:21 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/6/2012 9:07 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> A few more samples of people's perception of the two languages:
>>
>> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3805302
>
>
> At least we don't have this issue:
> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3814020
>
> The D gc allocates smallish "chunks" as required, not one giant virtual
> arena.

On reddit, too: 
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/rzd19/do_not_use_go_for_32bit_development/

I find that behavior quite surprising because, unlike imprecise GC, is 
much easier to improve.

Anyhow, the recent discussions on Go clarify that we need to improve our 
collector's precision, and pronto. The only thing that didn't yet make 
the problem more painful in D is that D programs create a lot less garbage.


Andrei