About GC: The Future of Rust : GC integration

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 8 June 2016 at 06:19:08 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 8 June 2016 at 03:10:32 UTC, Eugene Wissner wrote:
>> You can use GC also with C++ if you want. It is all about 
>> preferences..
>
> Yes, Inkscape uses the boehm collector, which is the same kind 
> of collector D uses. Inkscape feels sluggish.
>
> I've yet to see a large desktop app relying on GC that does not 
> feel sluggish.

I've used Inkscape quite a bit and I don't find it sluggish. 
Question: did it start to feel sluggish after you found out it 
used the Boehm collector or before? Sometimes programs `feel` 
fast or sluggish according to what you know about them. Yet 
benchmarking can prove your intuition wrong.

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