Discusssion on the Discussion of the Design for a new GC

[Kagamin via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 24 April 2014 at 18:39:34 UTC, Messenger wrote:
> Except a precise gc is type-aware, no? And you could basically 
> ask it to "please print out everything that you have currently 
> allocated so I can debug what's allocating".

Depends on the implementation. One would want to not store data 
which doesn't help with collection - a pointers bitmask is enough 
for scanning, but not enough to know the type.