A thought about garbage collection
deadalnix
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Wed Dec 19 17:37:16 PST 2012
On Wednesday, 19 December 2012 at 20:47:39 UTC, Benjamin Thaut
wrote:
> An article I just read. It even mentions D:
>
> http://sebastiansylvan.wordpress.com/2012/12/01/garbage-collection-thoughts/
>
> I my opinion he especially has a point with the "each object
> consists mostly out of pointers" argument.
>
He neglect to consider immutability (or maybe wasn't aware of)
and how, combined with GC it allow some idioms that are very
fast. Very good article overall.
D's GC should really be aware of TL and immutability of what it
does allocate.
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