d future or plans for d3

[Robert Jacques]

On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:54:22 -0800, Timon Gehr <timon.gehr at gmx.ch> wrote:

> On 12/19/2011 07:50 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> 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.
>
> It would probably be interesting to test the mostly concurrent
> generational Boehm GC with D. I'd expect it to perform a lot better than
> the simple mark and sweep GC we have in druntime.
>

The Boehm GC isn't concurrent nor generational.