Hello,
I know that mono uses today a conservative garbage collector (it
means that, the GC doesn't really release the memory to the OS). I've
read that a new Precise Garbage Collector (maybe the intel's one)
would be used.
We are building a new GC, see:
I can't answer the question about when Mono will have a precise garbage
collector, but I think that you might be confusing several issues involving
garbage collection.
The current Boehm GC is designed so that it will work in environments that
traditionally do not use garbage collection, such