On 2 Oct 2015 1:32 pm, "Tourist via Digitalmars-d" <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
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> On Friday, 2 October 2015 at 06:53:56 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
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>> On 1 Oct 2015 11:35 am, "Tourist via Digitalmars-d" < digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
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>> good GC. And they keep working on it, e.g. https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/12800-sweep-free-alloc.md
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>> https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/LICENSE
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>> Wouldn't it largely benefit D? I guess that I'm not the first one to think about it. Thoughts?
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>> Why do you think Go's GC might be better than D's?  Is it because we lack the PR when changes/innovations are done to the GC in druntime?  Do you *know* about anything new that has changed or improved in D's GC over the last two years?
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>> I'd be interested to hear about this.
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> I know that it has the reputation of being of the simplest kind. Haven't looked at the code actually (and I wouldn't understand much even if I did).

So I doubt you've looked at Go's GC code either.  In which case it is a matter of PR which led to your suggestion.