Memory Management in D: Request for Comment
dsimcha
dsimcha at yahoo.com
Wed Nov 4 14:12:46 PST 2009
== Quote from Sean Kelly (sean at invisibleduck.org)'s article
> 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.
Does this mean that this has officially, for all practical purposes, been put off
until D3?
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