On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 05:43:20PM -0500, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Lawrence Crowl <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Personally, I would rather see if we can take advantage of C++
> > features to reduce garbage and then use the Boehm collector.
> > There is too much manual management with GTY, and I'd rather the
> > compiler leverage mainstream practice rather than depart from it.
>
> I could not agree more.
I could not agree less, replacing a nicely precise garbage collector
for a conservative collector? Ugh. I realy want a deterministic compiler,
not one where bugs won't be really reproduceable because with ASLR
the conservative collector collects or not collects something at some point.
Jakub
