On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 16:34:44 -0700, Adam Wilson wrote: > Is this a debate about precise vs. non-precise GC or are we just > bikeshedding about terminology and technical details?
You made a large number of assertions about garbage collection and they were almost all wrong. It's not about minutiae -- D can't reasonably have a precise collector, and you were saying that nothing else useful can happen before you make the GC precise. A non-precise collector can and often should be concurrent, and you were saying this was useless. These are big things. They affect prioritization of major projects. Getting them wrong could mislead a GSoC student to the point of not accomplishing much when they could have plucked lower-hanging fruit successfully.