d future or plans for d3

Vladimir Panteleev vladimir at thecybershadow.net
Mon Dec 19 10:50:51 PST 2011


On Monday, 19 December 2011 at 08:28:52 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
> According to this wikipedia page 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boehm_garbage_collector it is also 
> the GC that is used by D, with some minor modifications of 
> course.

I'm not sure if that's true... I believe that they both use the 
same basic idea, but AFAIK the D garbage collector is a D port of 
a C rewrite which was originally written for something else. The 
D GC has been optimized a lot since its first versions.


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