The new Mono GC

[Walter Bright]

Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> Such write barriers are a performance problem, too.
> 
> What I've read about garbage collection techniques I got the impression 
> that you could implement a better and more efficient collector with 
> write barriers that would outweigh the performance loss that comes with 
> the barriers.


That's true if the language (like Java) uses a *lot* of gc allocation. D 
programs tend to do much less because it has support for value types.