On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:55:18 -0800, Vladimir Panteleev
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Sunday, 18 December 2011 at 23:28:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
I'm not sure. I seem to recall discussions with pathological cases when
large regions of memory were scanned for no good reason.
We need to factor the frequency of such cases, and their impact. Also, a
more precise GC isn't the only solution to such problems - one
alternative would be readily-available tools to diagnose memory
problems. For example, Diamond (the toolkit I've written for D1) can
display a graphical memory map with scannable areas being highlighted.
It also allows you to easily find the pointer chain that prevents your
object from being collected.
I ordered the GC book :o).
A lot of GC research seems to be tied to VMs. D is a bit of an
exception...
Well, maybe we can do the research then, I love research projects myself
and D would be a good vehicle to display the viability of native GC's,
especially if we had different implementations to experiment with. Just
because we aren't a university doesn't mean we can't do research. It seems
to me that no one else is interested...
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Adam Wilson
Project Coordinator
The Horizon Project
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