A different kind of Walter? :-)

[Alexander Panek]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:07:22 -0700
Walter Bright <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> David B. Held wrote:
> > That being said, I think it would be *particularly* clever of you
> > to use your start-from-scratch kernel to explore new ideas in
> > multi-processing and massive multithreading, but this would imply
> > having decent multi-CPU hardware to play with.
> 
> I'd also like to see better operating system support for garbage 
> collection - either making gc an operating system service, or
> providing hooks to the virtual memory subsystem so the gc can tell
> when pages are dirty.

Well, something along the lines of that is what I was thinking of. I'm
not so sure how to make the GC an operating system service, though..?