Re: State of and plans for the garbage collector

2010-07-18 Thread Michael Rynn
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:18:38 -0700, Jonathan M Davis wrote: Okay. I really don't know much about garbage collectors, how they work, or what makes one particularly good or bad Me too. But its a central part of the D langauge, its design and runtime. Even though D programmmers can replace

State of and plans for the garbage collector

2010-07-15 Thread Jonathan M Davis
Okay. I really don't know much about garbage collectors, how they work, or what makes one particularly good or bad (other than the fact that it needs to be efficient execution-wise and manage memory wisely so that you don't use too much of it or do anything else that would be an overall

Re: State of and plans for the garbage collector

2010-07-15 Thread Vladimir Panteleev
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:18:38 +0300, Jonathan M Davis jmdavisp...@gmail.com wrote: Okay. I really don't know much about garbage collectors, how they work, or what makes one particularly good or bad (other than the fact that it needs to be efficient execution-wise and manage memory wisely so

Re: State of and plans for the garbage collector

2010-07-15 Thread Leandro Lucarella
Jonathan M Davis, el 15 de julio a las 00:18 me escribiste: Okay. I really don't know much about garbage collectors, how they work, or what makes one particularly good or bad (other than the fact that it needs to be efficient execution-wise and manage memory wisely so that you don't use too

Re: State of and plans for the garbage collector

2010-07-15 Thread Robert Jacques
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 04:28:43 -0400, Vladimir Panteleev vladi...@thecybershadow.net wrote: On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:18:38 +0300, Jonathan M Davis jmdavisp...@gmail.com wrote: Okay. I really don't know much about garbage collectors, how they work, or what makes one particularly good or bad

Re: State of and plans for the garbage collector

2010-07-15 Thread Bane
If I had to chose one topic with most bitchin' on this newsgroup I have impression it would be the one about GC. They usually goes from 'GC managed programs are slow, D ain't good enough', to 'language X has better GC than D', to ' GC that D has is bad at Z'. Why not make D summer of code -

Re: State of and plans for the garbage collector

2010-07-15 Thread Bane
Anyway, I'm here bitching myself :) Just want to say that idea to have more than one GC type to chose when compiling would be very interesting thing, if single implementation can't be good for all cases. If I had to chose one topic with most bitchin' on this newsgroup I have impression it

Re: State of and plans for the garbage collector

2010-07-15 Thread dsimcha
== Quote from Bane (branimir.milosavlje...@gmail.com)'s article Anyway, I'm here bitching myself :) Just want to say that idea to have more than one GC type to chose when compiling would be very interesting thing, if single implementation can't be good for all cases. If I had to chose one

Re: State of and plans for the garbage collector

2010-07-15 Thread Leandro Lucarella
Bane, el 15 de julio a las 14:34 me escribiste: If I had to chose one topic with most bitchin' on this newsgroup I have impression it would be the one about GC. They usually goes from 'GC managed programs are slow, D ain't good enough', to 'language X has better GC than D', to ' GC that D has

Re: State of and plans for the garbage collector

2010-07-15 Thread Leandro Lucarella
dsimcha, el 15 de julio a las 19:23 me escribiste: == Quote from Bane (branimir.milosavlje...@gmail.com)'s article Anyway, I'm here bitching myself :) Just want to say that idea to have more than one GC type to chose when compiling would be very interesting thing, if single implementation

Re: State of and plans for the garbage collector

2010-07-15 Thread dsimcha
== Quote from Leandro Lucarella (l...@llucax.com.ar)'s article dsimcha, el 15 de julio a las 19:23 me escribiste: == Quote from Bane (branimir.milosavlje...@gmail.com)'s article Anyway, I'm here bitching myself :) Just want to say that idea to have more than one GC type to chose when