DConf 2013 Day 1 Talk 6: Concurrent Garbage Collection for D by Leandro Lucarella

[Diggory]

On Tuesday, 21 May 2013 at 00:00:13 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> On Monday, 20 May 2013 at 22:52:33 UTC, Diggory wrote:
>> And that would work on all modern OSes, plus you don't have 
>> the overhead of creating a new process or even a new thread. 
>> Also immutable memory doesn't need to be mapped, the GC thread 
>> can access it directly.
>
> Copy on WRITE usually don't happen on immutable memory.

I never said it did... I said that when using fork the immutable 
memory must be mapped into the new process, when using a thread 
it does not since threads share the same address space.