Success! (Precisely)

[Craig Black]

"dsimcha" <dsimcha at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:hcfur2$av5$1 at digitalmars.com...
> == Quote from Craig Black (craigblack2 at cox.net)'s article
> Does the GC have knowledge of
>> pointers on both the stack as well as the heap?
>
> Also, probably most of the problem with false pointers is on the heap 
> anyhow.  The
> stack is usually on the order of a few 10s of kilobytes, the static data 
> segment
> maybe another few 10s of kilobytes, whereas the heap can be hundreds of 
> megabytes.
> I think that, given how little progress has been made on improving the 
> current GC
> implementation and how hard a problem it is, adding precise heap scanning 
> to the
> current GC is a good 80/20 solution until D becomes popular enough to earn 
> hordes
> of money for research into improving its GC.

Yeah, that would be great.  Maybe some day.  One step at a time I suppose.

-Craig