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On Monday, 7 September 2015 at 15:34:21 UTC, BBasile wrote:
> You can already create, allocate new class, struct and union 
> instances that are not known by the GC.
> This is not well known because I've explained this several time 
> on several boards to several people. So this proposal is simply 
> consequence of a lack of knowledge.

You have to scan all memory that MAY contain a pointer to a 
reference chain that contains a pointer to GC heap. That's a lot 
of cache lines to scan over on today's computers that soon have 
terrabytes of memory.