Maybe D is right about GC after all !

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Fri Dec 22 17:10:17 UTC 2017


On Friday, 22 December 2017 at 04:56:57 UTC, thedeemon wrote:
> Making the GC more like in Go and JVM means adding write 
> barriers, it means making general code slower (we're not 
> fast-as-C anymore), it means losing easy C compatibility (hello 
> FFI!)

What exactly will be lost? And do we even have easy C 
compatibility to begin with or you just don't about problems with 
it?

> it means forbidding many current language features like unions 
> and casts

They would cause no more problems than for precise GC, not 
specific to barriers.


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