Release: serverino - please destroy it.

[H. S. Teoh]

On Mon, May 09, 2022 at 04:48:11PM +0000, Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Monday, 9 May 2022 at 16:37:15 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > Why is memory protection the only way to implement write barriers in
> > D?
> 
> Well, it's the only way I know of without making it a major
> backwards-incompatible change. The main restriction in this area is
> that it must continue working with code written in other languages,
> and generally not affect the ABI drastically.

Ah, gotcha.  Yeah, I don't think such an approach would be fruitful (it
was worth a shot, though!).  If D were ever to get write barriers,
they'd have to be in some other form, probably more intrusive in terms
of backwards-compatibility and ABI.


T

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