Discusssion on the Discussion of the Design for a new GC

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On Thursday, 24 April 2014 at 17:33:08 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
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> 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.

I disagree, in the current state of things there is benefit for 
64 bit systems:
Currently there are many ways to accidentally allocate without 
the NO_SCAN flag for data without pointers.

The overhead of scanning this non-pointer data can often be 
significant enough to warrant hunting for mis-flagged allocations.