[OT] GC without paging

[Sean Kelly]

Ingo Oeser wrote:
> Sean Kelly wrote:
> 
>> Yup, it's a good technique.  About the only drawback is that it requires
>> VMM integration to work, so it isn't terribly portable.  However, such a
>> GC could fall back on normal mark/sweep if run on a platform it doesn't
>> support.
> 
> Even better: D defines that a GC must EXIST, not what kind of GC you 
> have to implement and how it must work :-)
> 
> And your nice Tango library makes it even run time switchable AFAICS.

Link-time switchable, actually.  I'd originally considered run-time 
switchable, but it introduced too many weird problems.



Sean