A New Game Written in D

[H. S. Teoh]

On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 07:07:45AM +1200, rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> 
> On 19/05/2022 7:03 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > We keep coming back to this impasse: write barriers.  It's high time
> > somebody implemented this in a dmd fork so that we can actually test
> > out more advanced GC designs.
> 
> No. Not dmd.
> 
> LDC or GDC.
> 
> DMD is not suitable for experimentation due to the situation with
> atomics.
> 
> Advanced GC's may need concurrent data structures like lock-free, and
> you cannot implement them with dmd due to the atomic instructions
> being 3 function calls deep. You get segfaults. Been there done that,
> what a waste of 7 months.

Sounds good, do it in ldc/gdc, then.  Nowadays I only ever use dmd when
I need quick turn-around time anyway.  In terms of codegen it's pretty
lackluster, for production builds my go-to is LDC.


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