Argumentation protocol [was: Mac Apps That Use Garbage Collection Must Move to ARC]

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 2/25/2015 11:05 PM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Have you studied the G1 GC?

Nope.

> Any "data" from the 1990 regarding Java,

1998 or so. I wrote D's GC some years later.

> and indeed any other programming language with a lifespan of 20+years, is
> suspect, to say the least. Also what is said above is not data, it is
> opinion.

The day C++ compilers routinely generate write barriers is the day I believe 
they don't have runtime cost.