The Many Faces of D - slides

[Walter Bright]

Max Samukha wrote:
> He said "movable using memcpy()". He didn't say anything about adjusting 
> pointers. A moving GC should and will adjust pointers, but I don't see 
> how the memcpy() is relevant here.

The moving GC would adjust the pointers, but the memcpy() means that other 
things would not need to be done, such as incrementing counters, all the things 
that non-trivial copy constructors do.