Componentizing D's garbage collector

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 1/11/14 1:20 PM, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
> 1) Impercise pointer discovery => limiting yourself to a mark & sweep
> 2) Percise pointer disccovery => option to use a semi space GC in
> combination with a mark & sweep and generations, which allows for
> superior handling of short lived allocations (which is the biggest
> problem of D's current GC).

The way I see it/hope it turns out, precision is a separate concern from 
what I'm working on now, which is tracing.

Andrei

P.S. s/percise/precise/g