On 11.05.2014 22:33, Walter Bright wrote:
The Boehm collector cannot move objects around, the D one can.Oh it can? Really?Yes. D, for example, requires that objects not be self-referential for this reason.
I don't think the GC would have problems with fixing up internal pointers to the object itself. self-referential is prohibited to allow moving structures by memcpy, e.g. as return value.
