On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:33:40 -0400, bearophile <bearophileh...@lycos.com>
wrote:
Is it possible to try to replace (or just perform experiments) the D GC
with this one?
http://developers.sones.de/2010/09/01/taking-the-new-and-shiny-mono-simple-generational-garbage-collector-mono-sgen-for-a-walk/
Delegating the creation and management of the D GC to someone else (the
Mono team) sounds like a possible way to have a good enough GC.
license-wise, I think it would be possible to just port. The GC portion
of mono is licensed via MIT X/11
It says it's semi-precise (everything except registers and stack, which
are scanned conservatively). ATM, D doesn't have enough data to have
precise scanning (though there is work being done on that).
I don't see why it wouldn't be possible to try out this GC, it seems to be
mostly usable in a D environment.
-Steve
