The "no gc" crowd

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On Tuesday, 8 October 2013 at 15:43:46 UTC, ponce wrote:
> At least on Internet forums, there seems to be an entire 
> category of people dismissing D immediately because it has a GC.
>
> Whatever rational rebutal we have it's never heard.
> The long answer is that it's not a real problem. But it seems 
> people want a short answer. It's also an annoying fight to have 
> since so much of it is based on zero data.

Just stumbled upon this paper "A Study of the Scalability of 
Stop-the-world
Garbage Collectors on Multicores". I have not read it in detail, 
but the conclusion says:

"Our evaluation suggests that today, there is no conceptual 
reason to believe that the pause time of a stop-the-world GC will 
increase with the increasing number of cores and memory size of 
multicore hardware."

http://pagesperso-systeme.lip6.fr/Gael.Thomas/research/biblio/2013/gidra13asplos-naps.pdf