Discusssion on the Discussion of the Design for a new GC

[Kagamin via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 24 April 2014 at 17:10:20 UTC, Brian Rogoff wrote:
>> 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
>
> So this PR is the main blocker to a working heap-precise GC?
>
> Given all of the talk and energy spent around the GC issue I'd 
> have thought this would be on some super duper high priority 
> fast path for inclusion. Nothing wrong with other GC projects 
> but this seems like the lowest hanging fruit.

Another issue is that in 64-bit address space precise GC gives no 
advantage as false pointers have low probability, so precise GC 
seems to be not worth the effort.