Componentizing D's garbage collector

[Timon Gehr]

On 01/13/2014 10:11 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>> Not to say there aren't other ways of doing things, but with random
>> objects
>> becoming pinnable puts a big damper on things unless you can identify
>> all the
>> objects that might be pinned and isolate them.  But I doubt that's really
>> knowable up front.
>
> The reason pinning doesn't particularly impede this is because pinning
> is rare.

In Java or in D? Eg. there are no unions in Java.