Discusssion on the Discussion of the Design for a new GC

[Brian Rogoff via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 24 April 2014 at 06:10:00 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
> On 23.04.2014 20:35, Messenger wrote:
>> What is the state of Rainer Schütze's precise gc? Duplication 
>> of effort
>> and all that.
>
> The implementation relies on correct RTInfo generation, but 
> that still doesn't work as this pull request is sitting there 
> for 8 months now without getting much review: 
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/2480

So this PR is the main blocker to a working heap-precise GC?

Given all of the talk and energy spent around the GC issue I'd 
have thought this would be on some super duper high priority fast 
path for inclusion. Nothing wrong with other GC projects but this 
seems like the lowest hanging fruit.

> Coincidentally, I updated the PR just a couple of days ago.
>
> The precise GC changes for druntime are here: 
> https://github.com/rainers/druntime/tree/gcx_precise2