d future or plans for d3

[Timon Gehr]

On 12/20/2011 07:01 AM, Ruslan Mullakhmetov wrote:
> On 2011-12-19 11:52:25 +0000, Alex Rønne Petersen said:
>
>> On 18-12-2011 15:40, Somedude wrote:
>>> Le 18/12/2011 15:07, Ruslan Mullakhmetov a écrit :
>>>>
>>>> GC is just a mater of implementation. In presence of resources
>>>> implement
>>>> good GC algorithm offers no difficulty.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Oh really ? Then please make us a favor and write one for D. Also I'm
>>> sure the C++ guys will be pleased to hear that it's such an easy task.
>>
>> Yeah, unfortunately, we can't just keep saying "it's an implementation
>> issue". It's very much a real problem; D programmers are *avoiding*
>> the GC because it just isn't comparable to, say, the .NET and Java GCs
>> in performance at all.
>>
>> - Alex
>
> Thanks for you explanation. I'm quite far away from GC but where is the
> problem compare to Java and .NET? Resources (people), specific language
> features making hard to implement GC or something else?
>
> When i said that this is just a matter of implementation i followed the
> idea that it's already implemented in say Java, C#, Erlang wich GC was
> declared to be good enough in this topic.
>

The difference is that those languages are entirely type safe.