Is Phobos's Garbage Collector utterly broken? (Phobos vs Tango)

[Dave]

Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:48:26 +0300, Sean Kelly <sean at f4.ca> wrote:
> 
>> It turns out this is because GrowBuffer uses a void[] internally to
>> store data.  The type should probably be changed to byte[].  I'll file a
>> ticket for it.
> 
> Cheers, that indeed fixed it. And now it runs much faster than the Phobos version, too!
> 

I thought the Phobos and Tango GC's were basically the same -- has that changed over the last 1/2 
year or so?

Thanks,

- Dave

> What's the reasoning of scanning void[] - why would anyone keep pointers in a void[] since it's supposed to mean "binary non-descript data"?
>