On Friday, 24 May 2013 at 19:44:19 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Friday, May 24, 2013 20:30:54 Juan Manuel Cabo wrote:
I know that this is slightly offtopic, since the topic lately
seems to be how to make the GC run generationally or with small
footprint (don't stop the world, etc.).
I'd like to know if there is interest in a precise garbage
collector.
There is interest in it, and Rainer Schütze did a talk on it at
DConf. At the
current pace (assuming that Andrei actually posts one on Monday
even though
it's a federal holiday in the US), it'll be posted on June 3rd
(and if he
skips Monday, then it'll probably be June 5th). And actually,
the precise GC
changes stand a much better chance of making it into druntime
in the short
term than any concurrency changes do.
- Jonathan M Davis
Thanks, that is great news!
--jm
