Re: [Mono-list] What about the new GC?

2005-12-16 Thread Miguel de Icaza
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:

Re: [Mono-list] What about the new GC?

2005-12-15 Thread Marcus
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