Dynamic Code in D

[Sean Kelly]

Michael Wilson wrote:
> bearophile wrote:
>
>>> 2. High-performance synchronization. As of 1.6, Java's monitor
>  >> implementation is quite impressive;<
>>
>> I don't know the answer, but in most things D is far from being tuned
>  > and refined, etc. In that kind of things only C# may be better.
> 
> That's something I could potentially help with once I'm decently
> familiar with the language, if the GDC developers are accepting patches.
> Otherwise, I could just implement my own synchronization, via
> inline assembly (since this doesn't have to be multi-platform) or C.

Right now, D uses OS API routines for synchronization.  Tango also has a 
Mutex class design that integrates with the 'synchronized' statement, 
and it would be pretty easy to create a futex or whatever that does the 
same thing.  This may be the way to go for special-purpose locking.


Sean