Memory Management in D: Request for Comment

[Sean Kelly]

dsimcha Wrote:
 
> 3.  This one is an order of magnitude less likely than the other two to
> actually get implemented, at least by me, but how about thread-local
> allocators so you can call malloc() without taking a lock?  I vaguely remember
> Sean saying he was working on that a while back, but I never heard anything
> about it again.  It's probably best to wait for shared to be implemented for
> this so that unshared objects can also be collected w/o stopping the world,
> but we should start at least discussing this now.

I actually started working on this a while back and then set it aside to take care of some other things.  I'm planning to revisit it once the concurrency model is reasonably sorted out, since such a GC is pretty much useless until then anyway.