On 24/11/2012 8:07 PM, Omer Zach wrote: > Seemed like it would be worth shooting you guys an email before we dive > in—is this a terrible idea or is there anything we should know before we > get started?
It's not a terrible idea, but it is one I think requires a bit more care; there are already several pieces of this written (the --gc code in the compiler, the core::gc collector, the rt allocator) and lying around, and (at least personally) I'd prefer if you or anyone wanting to hack on the GC spent energy integrating and improving those pieces, not adding another one. Especially not one in C: our long term plan is to move as much of the runtime as possible from C to rust; most tasks can be done mostly in (unsafe) rust and we find the integration much easier when keeping logic there. -Graydon _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
