Discusssion on the Discussion of the Design for a new GC

Rainer Schuetze via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Apr 23 23:10:01 PDT 2014



On 23.04.2014 20:35, Messenger wrote:
> On Wednesday, 23 April 2014 at 15:33:36 UTC, Orvid King wrote:
>> After all of that, I intend to include a base draft of the design of
>> the GC, along with opening the PRs and committing the starting API.
>> So, is there something I’m missing? Am I overlooking the obvious? Is
>> there a more practical way to produce the same results?
>
> What is the state of Rainer Schütze's precise gc? Duplication of effort
> and all that.

The implementation relies on correct RTInfo generation, but that still 
doesn't work as this pull request is sitting there for 8 months now 
without getting much review: 
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/2480

Coincidentally, I updated the PR just a couple of days ago.

The precise GC changes for druntime are here: 
https://github.com/rainers/druntime/tree/gcx_precise2


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