D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting Summary

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Friday, 4 June 2021 at 12:44:07 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
> GC won't go away tho. What might happen is more flexibility. 
> The GC-phobia is irrational.

The topic doesn't fit in this thread, but it isn't irrational.

You have to wait for all participating threads to be ready to 
collect, so it isn't only about collection speed. In essence you 
end up with some of the same issues as with cooperative 
multitasking.

And it is also obvious that collection speed will drop as your 
application grows and you start working with larger datasets.

So, you might initially think it is fine, but end up rewriting 
your codebase because it only worked well with the simple 
prototype you started with.

That's not a good strategy.

(but ok for batch programs)