LinkedIn Article to be: Why you need to start moving off C/C++ to D, now.

Araq via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Jul 17 11:20:44 PDT 2014


On Thursday, 17 July 2014 at 15:38:44 UTC, Tobias Müller wrote:
> "Araq" <rumpf_a at web.de> wrote:
>> The paper focusses on RC vs "tracing". My point is "tracing" 
>> vs "copying"
>> is another tradeoff. Here is a mark&sweep algorithm:
>> 
>> - Trace live objects.
>> - For each dead object: Deallocate.
>> 
>> Here is a copying GC:
>> 
>> - Trace and copy live objects.
>> - There is no deallocation step. The old region is free for 
>> further usage.
>
> It's more like: ...

Your description is still naive and as such your post is more 
misleading than helpful. My description is naive to get the basic 
point across, I have no idea what the point of your post is.


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