GCs are complicated beasts: .NET Core, 35000 lines

ketmar via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Feb 6 08:25:13 PST 2015


On Fri, 06 Feb 2015 16:14:54 +0000, Paolo Invernizzi wrote:

> On Friday, 6 February 2015 at 16:05:47 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 2/6/15 1:38 AM, Muahmmad Adel wrote:
>>> On a previous reddit thread, Andrei Alexandrescu said that he will be
>>> rewriting the GC based on the core allocator. However there were no
>>> more details about this anticipated garbage collector features.
>>
>> Rainer Schütze and Martin Nowak are working on significant improvements
>> of D's GC, most of which will be released with 2.067. -- Andrei
> 
> Sorry for the silly question: is there a PR, or is some work already
> merged in head?

there is constant (albeit small) flow of GC-related changes in commit 
log, so it seems that some work is going on. i think that big changes are 
not pushing due to big amount of necessary testing and possible code 
breakage from not so-well-tested commits.
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