DIP60: @nogc attribute

John Colvin via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Apr 18 15:10:05 PDT 2014


On Friday, 18 April 2014 at 20:24:51 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/18/2014 10:54 AM, John Colvin wrote:
>> My understanding is that a more sophisticated GC will also not 
>> coexist quite so
>> peacefully with pointers of all types. Is it not the 
>> conservativeness* of the GC
>> that enables this coexistence?
>
> Yes. Which is one reason why D doesn't emit write gates for 
> indirect assignment.

Which, if any, of the more sophisticated GC designs out there - 
in your opinion - would work well with D? Perhaps more 
importantly, which do you see as *not* working well with D.


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