Mac Apps That Use Garbage Collection Must Move to ARC

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Feb 26 11:58:13 PST 2015


On 2/25/2015 11:01 PM, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
> What you are describing is a compacting GC and not a generational GC. Please
> just describe in words how you would do a generational GC without write
> barriers. Because just as deadalnix wrote, the problem is tracking pointers
> within the old generation that point to the new generation.

It was a generational gc, I described earlier how it used page faults instead of 
write barriers. I eventually removed the page fault system because it was faster 
without it.


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