GC conservatism -- again

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:45:54 -0500, Walter Bright  
<newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> Any other ideas?
>
> Garbage collection tends to break down when you have enormous blocks of  
> memory allocated - 200Mb certainly qualifies.
>
> I suggest breaking up the data structure into smaller pieces, like  
> making it an array of arrays.

This doesn't help.  The requirement is that it is one contiguous piece of  
memory.

I don't know if we can solve the GC problems (although it seems that is  
all people want to talk about here), I was wondering if we can provide a  
library/language supported solution to enable better manual memory  
management in these extreme circumstances.

-Steve