Componentizing D's garbage collector

[Paulo Pinto]

Am 13.01.2014 22:31, schrieb Timon Gehr:
> On 01/13/2014 10:11 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>>
>>> Not to say there aren't other ways of doing things, but with random
>>> objects
>>> becoming pinnable puts a big damper on things unless you can identify
>>> all the
>>> objects that might be pinned and isolate them.  But I doubt that's
>>> really
>>> knowable up front.
>>
>> The reason pinning doesn't particularly impede this is because pinning
>> is rare.
>
> In Java or in D? Eg. there are no unions in Java.

C# has unions.

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