d future or plans for d3
    Vladimir Panteleev 
    vladimir at thecybershadow.net
       
    Sun Dec 18 15:24:17 PST 2011
    
    
  
On Sunday, 18 December 2011 at 23:18:22 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
> You are right. I have had in mind a generational GC that uses a 
> copying collector for the nursery as this is what most 
> state-of-the-art VM GCs do.
>
> ...
>
> We can change the way unions are layed out. The compiler can 
> mark GC memory passed to a C function as non-movable, or 
> passing GC memory to a C function can be made illegal if the GC 
> is enabled.
These changes are too invasive for the language at this point, I 
believe. We need to work with what we have.
    
    
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