DConf 2013 Day 1 Talk 6: Concurrent Garbage Collection for D by Leandro Lucarella

[Brian Rogoff]

On Friday, 24 May 2013 at 19:44:19 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Friday, May 24, 2013 20:30:54 Juan Manuel Cabo wrote:
>> I'd like to know if there is interest in a precise garbage
>> collector.
>
> There is interest in it, and Rainer Schütze did a talk on it at 
> DConf. At the
> current pace (assuming that Andrei actually posts one on Monday 
> even though
> it's a federal holiday in the US), it'll be posted on June 3rd 
> (and if he
> skips Monday, then it'll probably be June 5th). And actually, 
> the precise GC
> changes stand a much better chance of making it into druntime 
> in the short
> term than any concurrency changes do.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

That's very promising. The lack of precise garbage collection and 
the unclear story with regards to programming sans-GC (maybe it's 
clear to someone, but not to me) is far more of a "deal breaker" 
for me than the lack of non-nullable pointers. I hope that you're 
right and that this gets sorted out soon.

-- Brian