About GC: The Future of Rust : GC integration

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 8 June 2016 at 15:24:45 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote:
> On Wednesday, 8 June 2016 at 06:19:08 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
> wrote:
>> 
>> Yes, Inkscape uses the boehm collector, which is the same kind 
>> of collector D uses. Inkscape feels sluggish.
>
> Wow, I did not expect to see "Inkscape" pop up in the D forums!
> Inkscape can be sluggish, but that has nothing to do with GC.
>
> - Johan
> (I was one of the main contributors of Inkscape)
>
> [*] For example, many operations result in writing the 
> human-readable SVG string representation of path data and then 
> reading that back in again to complete the operation. This is 
> of course not very fast for large paths.

That explains why it's not sluggish when I use it. I use it for 
simple graphics (icons, logos and the like). Nothing too fancy.

The point to take home is that it's not the GC! Funny :-)

By the way, thanks Johan for Inkscape, I really appreciate it!