GC that performs faster than malloc!?  Incredible!  D needs this.

-Craig

"Chris Miller" <chris@dprogramming.com> wrote in message news:op.tiv11offpo9bzi@tanu...
> On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 23:01:50 -0500, Craig Black <cblack@ara.com> wrote:
>
> >> C# on .NET 2.0     :  1.902 sec
> >> DMD 0.173 - malloc(original version)  :  5.189 sec
> >> C# on Mono 1.1.18 :  6.630 sec
> >> DMD 0.173 - full GC : 19.720 sec
> >
> > I see that C# GC is faster than DMD's malloc.  How is this possible?
Did
> > Microsoft figure out how to make the GC really fast, or is D's malloc slow?
>
> The type of GC used by .NET is just about as fast as stack allocation; a simple pointer is advanced. It's an upside to relocating data (copying collector).

Craig Black wrote:
> GC that performs faster than malloc!?  Incredible!  D needs this.
> 
> -Craig
> 
see:

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/appel87garbage.html

and

http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/CheneyMTA.html

-DavidM