Componentizing D's garbage collector

[Sönke Ludwig]

Am 11.01.2014 22:20, schrieb Benjamin Thaut:
> Also without percise pointer discovery you will never be able to move
> objects from one heap into another. This would be especially a problem
> for the immutable heap, because you might want to allocate all strings
> on the thread local heap until you discover that you actually need them
> to be shared between threads.

The language can help a lot there (pure... and scope, if "fixed"), so 
that the compiler can emit the necessary calls to make this explicit, 
because it already knows that it's safe without performing a garbage 
collection cycle.