Analysis of D GC

[Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 20 June 2017 at 15:16:01 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
>> My take on D's GC problem, also spoiler - I'm going to build a 
>> new one soonish.
>>
>> http://olshansky.me/gc/runtime/dlang/2017/06/14/inside-d-gc.html
>>
>> ---
>> Dmitry Olshansky
>
> Many thanks for your efforts Dmitry :)
>
> May I ask you if you plan to make a soft real-time GC similar 
> to the one implemented in the Nim language ?
>
> https://nim-lang.org/docs/gc.html
> https://nim-lang.org/docs/intern.html#debugging-nim-s-memory-management
>
> What is great about it is that we can call it regularly to 
> collect memory a bit at a time, giving it a maximum delay for 
> this operation.
>

No incremental GC, sorry. It may grow thread-local collection one 
day, once spec is precise about what is allowed and what is not.