Bottom line re GC in D

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 9 July 2014 at 11:21:13 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> Adrian:
>
>> As for your second question (i.e. how good the GC needs to be 
>> for me), I would probably be satisfied with a GC that matches 
>> the Java one
>
> This will not happen even in one hundred years. So if that's 
> what you want, you will never be satisfied by D GC.
>

Actually, I think we can do better than Java, because we have
type qualifiers and less indirection. That isn't unseen: OCaml's
GC is more performant than Java's. We certainly do not have the
resources java has, but we have a language that is way more GC
friendly.