iPhone vs Android

angel via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Sep 13 02:45:03 PDT 2016


I think the conclusions about iOS vs. Android OS-level memory 
collection are not applicable to D GC discussion.
An OS collects all the memory pages allocated for a process upon 
exit - no heap scan, no RC. It more resembles a one huge free() 
call.
The discussion is mainly about eager vs. less-eager 
not-currently-running process killing strategy.
D's GC lies in a different plane ...


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