Mac Apps That Use Garbage Collection Must Move to ARC

Manu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Feb 22 08:39:05 PST 2015


On 22 February 2015 at 21:31, Jakob Ovrum via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, 22 February 2015 at 00:43:47 UTC, Manu wrote:
>>
>> D's GC is terrible, and after 6 years hanging out in this place, I
>> have seen precisely zero development on the GC front.
>
>
> You must have missed RTInfo, Rainer's precise heap scanner and Sociomantic's
> concurrent GC.

Rasiner's GC was even slower (at the time it was presented), but it
offers the advantage that it doesn't leak like a seive. FWIW, I am in
favour of migrating to rainer's GC, but it doesn't really address any
problems.
Sociomantic's GC takes advantage of a particular OS, it's not portable.


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