On 5/11/2014 1:45 PM, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
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.
The earlier D design did not have postblit, and so there was no fixing up of
internal pointers.
