About GC: The Future of Rust : GC integration

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 8 June 2016 at 15:24:45 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote:
> On Wednesday, 8 June 2016 at 06:19:08 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
> wrote:
>> 
>> Yes, Inkscape uses the boehm collector, which is the same kind 
>> of collector D uses. Inkscape feels sluggish.
>
> Wow, I did not expect to see "Inkscape" pop up in the D forums!
> Inkscape can be sluggish, but that has nothing to do with GC.
>
> - Johan
> (I was one of the main contributors of Inkscape)
>
> [*] For example, many operations result in writing the 
> human-readable SVG string representation of path data and then 
> reading that back in again to complete the operation. This is 
> of course not very fast for large paths.

Well, that explains why Inkscape consistently feels sluggish. I 
believe it also freeze short-term from time to time which I 
normally would attribute to boehm-style GC, but given what you 
say it could be due to a number of causes so not a useful case 
either way.