Discusssion on the Discussion of the Design for a new GC

[Orvid King via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 24 April 2014 at 07:09:27 UTC, Mike 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 specific problems do you hope to solve with the new 
> design?  Is it only to improve the speed at which the GC runs 
> to completion on a single pass?  What about premptability so 
> the GC could run as a low priority task, and be interrupted at 
> any time to run something at a higher priority?  Is that out of 
> scope?
>
> Mike

The goals of my design are to first off reduce the impact of the 
GC on D as a whole, I would love it if I could get it down to the 
same, or less impact as the MS.net GC. Secondly I want to make 
extending, or customizing the GC for each particular use-case 
significantly easier. Reducing the number of false positives 
would also be a good outcome. Overall I intend to significantly 
improve on D's current GC.