Go, D, and the GC

rsw0x via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Oct 8 12:22:57 PDT 2015


On Thursday, 8 October 2015 at 16:25:00 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
> Am Sun, 04 Oct 2015 23:28:47 +0000
> schrieb Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com>:
>
>> [...]
>
> It was probably bad wording. I understood it as D's GC works on 
> a similar basis as Boehm now - conservative, stop the world 
> mark & sweep. The reason in both being the nature of the host 
> language. In fact the German Wikipedia says that Boehm GC was 
> ported with minimal changes to druntime.

Yes, this is what I was implying. Sorry if it was poorly worded.
D does not provide the GC with any support, it is like dropping 
boehm in C++.


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