Go, D, and the GC

[Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d]

On 01-Oct-2015 12:33, Tourist wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I know that Go invested many time and resources in an implementation of
> a good GC. And they keep working on it, e.g.
> https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/12800-sweep-free-alloc.md
>
>
> I also see that the implementation is licensed as BSD, as far as I see:
> https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/LICENSE
>
> Question: is it possible to make a D compiler/runtime that uses Go's GC?

***memory barriers for pointer writes***

I guess not w/o huge amount of work.

> Wouldn't it largely benefit D? I guess that I'm not the first one to
> think about it. Thoughts?


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Dmitry Olshansky