DConf 2013 last talk

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Friday, May 03, 2013 16:18:58 Peter Alexander wrote:
> On Friday, 3 May 2013 at 11:38:38 UTC, David wrote:
> >> 2. Are we going to spend the next 10-20 years writing garbage
> >> collectors for D?
> > 
> > Good question, what's with the GC from last years GSoC?
> 
>  From what I understand (which could be completely incorrect) the
> author disappeared when GSoC ended, so it was never pulled in.

Yes, but I believe that the precise garbage collector that Rainer Schütze 
worked on (and discussed in his talk on Thursday) was based on it. And it 
looks like after that talk, there's definite interest in getting Rainer's work 
into druntime. Andrei in particular was very enthusiastic about it. So, it's 
probably only a matter of time before we have a more precise garbage collector 
in druntime (which will seriously reduce the false pointers problem, though I 
can't remember if it completely eliminates it).

- Jonathan M Davis