On Tuesday, 24 July 2018 at 17:14:53 UTC, Chris M. wrote:
On Tuesday, 24 July 2018 at 16:15:52 UTC, bpr wrote:
On Tuesday, 24 July 2018 at 14:07:43 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
[...]
No. For many C++ users, tracing GC is absolutely not an
option. And, if it were, D's GC is not a shining example of a
good GC. It's not even precise, and I would bet that it never
will be. If I'm able to tolerate a GC, there are languages
with much better GCs than the D one, like Go and Java.
[...]
There was a precise GC in the works at one point, no clue what
happened to it.
The newest PR is:
https://github.com/dlang/druntime/pull/1977
Though there's already a bit of precise scanning on Windows, e.g.
https://github.com/dlang/druntime/pull/1798 and IIRC Visual D
uses a precise GC too.
