Componentizing D's garbage collector

[Benjamin Thaut]

Am 12.01.2014 11:54, schrieb Jakob Ovrum:
> On Sunday, 12 January 2014 at 10:40:50 UTC, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
>> Also I don't think that we can create a GC which performs as good as
>> the one of Java or C# if we are not willing to make the neccessary
>> changes for a moving gc.
>
> We don't necessarily need that, though. In D we have a plethora of
> non-GC options, so it might be a better idea to tailor our GC to typical
> D programs rather than trying to reproduce the Java and C# collectors.
> For example, from a generational GC perspective, I don't think the young
> generation is significant in idiomatic D code, unlike Java code which
> relies on it heavily.

You should really try to write non-GC D code some time. You would be 
astonished how many hidden allocations there are.