Memory Management in D: Request for Comment

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

dsimcha wrote:
> == 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?

Performance improvements are fortunately not tied to the language spec.

Andrei