The problem with the D GC
Lutger
lutger.blijdestijn at gmail.com
Mon Jan 8 05:00:47 PST 2007
Oskar Linde wrote:
> After having fought a while with D programs with runaway memory leaks,
> I've unfortunately had to come to the conclusion that the D GC is not
> ready for production use. The problem is what I'd call "spurious
> pointers". That is random data (strings, numbers, image data, audio or
> whatever) appearing to the GC to be full of pointers to all over the
> memory space.
....
Wow that is so bad. I thought it has been mentioned this will not be a
problem in practice but it apparently is.
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