More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

[bearophile via Digitalmars-d]

Paulo Pinto:

> Java Azul VM GC was already handling 1 TB in 2010.
>
> http://qconsf.com/sf2010/dl/qcon-sanfran-2010/slides/GilTene_GCNirvanaHighThroughputAndLowLatencyTogether.pdf
>
> GC is not the only way of doing automatic memory management, but
> this ongoing discussion steams more from D's current GC status
> and respective phobia in C world, and less from what a modern GC
> is capable of.

On the other hand I don't think you will have available in the D 
world the amount of work done on the Azul GC. This is the problem 
with looking at Java.

Bye,
bearophile