On Sunday, 18 December 2011 at 23:02:17 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
It is an unilateral improvement if both options are kept open. I don't see a reason to cease support for the current GC model.
I believe that currently the plan does not include providing this choice.
Furthermore, a generational GC performs much better than a simple mark-sweep GC.
Unless you change the way references work, generational and "precise" aspects of a GC are orthogonal. Also, D can't have a completely precise GC as long as it has unions and can pass managed memory to C code.
