More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 07:34:13 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> 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

Hence my remark that this whole discussion is more about finding 
working alternatives in the D world and less about what 
industrial class GCs are capable of.

I was just doing a heads up, as people tend to misunderstand GCs.

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Paulo