[dmd-internals] Enabling precise GCs

Walter Bright walter at digitalmars.com
Wed Jul 28 11:31:02 PDT 2010


I haven't yet, but I will.

Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> Hi, Walter, I don't know if you has been keeping an eye on bug 3463[1],
> but I would like very much to know if you are interested on integrating
> the patch to the compiler. It has suffered a few iterations and the
> current one seems good enough, and it's backwards compatible (you can
> compile a runtime, Tango or Phobos, that doesn't know anything about
> precise scanning using a precise-enabled compiler and all works just
> fine, which makes it a good candidate for D1 too).
>
> I really don't care too much about the runtime patches right now, but
> I find the compiler patch quite important, as it enables a new field in
> GC research for D, with this patch it is possible to experiment even
> with moving collectors.
>
> What do you think?
>
> [1] http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3463
>
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