My wish for 2015...

[Tobias Pankrath via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 26 December 2014 at 00:05:49 UTC, Xinok wrote:
> On Thursday, 25 December 2014 at 20:00:43 UTC, Martin Nowak 
> wrote:
>> On Thursday, 25 December 2014 at 14:55:32 UTC, Xinok wrote:
>> Ah OK, thought you had problems with stale stack values.
>> False pointers were discussed here 
>> https://youtu.be/LQY1m_eT37c?t=23m0s, but it's an issue that 
>> only affects few programs (32-bit with floats or random data 
>> in GC scanned memory). So unless we can use precise GC info to 
>> speed up marking, it will be a lot of work with little impact, 
>> even more since we have Win64 support.
>
> Any program that processes significant amounts of information, 
> such as scientific data, images, or videos, is likely to 
> experience issues with the conservative GC.

Would a well supported RC scheme be better than a precise GC for
these use cases?