Componentizing D's garbage collector

[Jakob Ovrum]

On Sunday, 12 January 2014 at 10:40:50 UTC, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
> Also I don't think that we can create a GC which performs as 
> good as the one of Java or C# if we are not willing to make the 
> neccessary changes for a moving gc.

We don't necessarily need that, though. In D we have a plethora 
of non-GC options, so it might be a better idea to tailor our GC 
to typical D programs rather than trying to reproduce the Java 
and C# collectors. For example, from a generational GC 
perspective, I don't think the young generation is significant in 
idiomatic D code, unlike Java code which relies on it heavily.