Uses and Ports
The Boehm GC is used by many projects that are implemented in C or C++, as well as by runtime environments for a number of other languages, including the GNU Compiler for Java runtime environment, the Portable.NET project, Embeddable Common Lisp, the Mono implementation of the Microsoft .NET platform (also using precise compacting GC since version 2.8), and libgc-d (a binding to libgc for the D programming language, used primarily in the MCI). It supports numerous operating systems, including many Unix variants (such as Mac OS X) and Microsoft Windows, and provides a number of advanced features including incremental collection, parallel collection and a variety of finalizer semantics.
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