More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

[Rainer Schuetze via Digitalmars-d]

On 11.05.2014 22:33, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>>> The Boehm collector cannot move objects around, the D one can.
>> Oh it can? Really?
>
> Yes. D, for example, requires that objects not be self-referential for
> this reason.

I don't think the GC would have problems with fixing up internal 
pointers to the object itself. self-referential is prohibited to allow 
moving structures by memcpy, e.g. as return value.