Go, D, and the GC

[Tourist via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 2 October 2015 at 06:53:56 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> On 1 Oct 2015 11:35 am, "Tourist via Digitalmars-d" < 
> digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>> [...]
> good GC. And they keep working on it, e.g. 
> https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/12800-sweep-free-alloc.md
>> [...]
> https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/LICENSE
>> [...]
> Wouldn't it largely benefit D? I guess that I'm not the first 
> one to think about it. Thoughts?
>
> Why do you think Go's GC might be better than D's?  Is it 
> because we lack the PR when changes/innovations are done to the 
> GC in druntime?  Do you *know* about anything new that has 
> changed or improved in D's GC over the last two years?
>
> I'd be interested to hear about this.

I know that it has the reputation of being of the simplest kind. 
Haven't looked at the code actually (and I wouldn't understand 
much even if I did).