Smart pointers instead of GC?

bearophile bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
Mon Feb 3 13:03:45 PST 2014


Adam Wilson:

> I will not defend the current GC, it is about as stupid as you 
> can make one and still have a functioning memory management 
> system. It implements exactly none of the optimizations 
> recommended for Mark-Sweep GC's in the GC Handbook.

Why don't you open an enhancement request for each of those 
recommended optimizations (explaining as well as possible what to 
do and how and what to expect from them)? I have opened several 
"obvious" enhancement requests, and I have seen them fixed in 
some time.

Bye,
bearophile


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