Re:The D Garbage Collector
by pcwalton on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @01:58PM
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C# has had value types for a long time. The conclusions the C# developers came to were that the tradeoffs are indeed the same as in previous languages.
For some reason people keep wanting to deny the generational hypothesis, in the hopes of not having to implement a generational GC. Frankly, this is wishful thinking. The generational hypothesis has been borne out again and again and again, in all kinds of different scenarios.
For some reason people keep wanting to deny the generational hypothesis, in the hopes of not having to implement a generational GC. Frankly, this is wishful thinking. The generational hypothesis has been borne out again and again and again, in all kinds of different scenarios.