Re: radical ideas about GC and ARC : need to be time driven?

[w0rp via Digitalmars-d]

I think the reason people ask about improving the GC so 
frequently is that it's not clear when any potential future 
iprovements will come around. I think perhaps things may become 
more clear to those concerned if they were told who was working 
on GC, roughly when they can expect to see certain improvements, 
and so on.

I think the recent work Walter has been doing on the @nogc 
attribute is valuable, and will be a major contributor to 
reducing the number of undue allocations in the standard library. 
While this will not address quality of implementation issues with 
the garbage collector, this will certainly reduce the impact of 
performance problems caused by pause times. Culprits will be 
easier to track down and eliminate with the new attribute and its 
semantics.