DConf 2013 last talk

[deadalnix]

On Sunday, 5 May 2013 at 01:55:36 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> Jonathan M Davis:
>
>> 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).
>
> Probably it doesn't use things like a shadow stack, so it 
> doesn't trace stack pointers well. So probably it's not fully 
> precise.
>

It is conservative with stack and unions. So it isn't fully 
precise. I do think the tradeoff that is made here is the right 
one.