GCs in the news

[Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d]

On 17 Jul 2014 13:40, "w0rp via Digitalmars-d" <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com>
wrote:
>
> The key to making D's GC acceptable lies in two factors I believe.
>
> 1. Improve the implementation enough so that you will only be impacted by
GC in extermely low memory or real time environments.
> 2. Defer allocation more and more by using ranges and algorithms more,
and trust that compiler optimisations will make these fast.
>

How about
1. Make it easier to select which GC you want to use at runtime init.
2. Write an alternate GC aimed at different application uses (ie: real-time)

We already have (at least) three GC implementations for D.

Regards
Iain
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