Memory Management in D: Request for Comment

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

dsimcha wrote:
> == Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org)'s article
>> 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
> 
> But the concurrency model is.

Sorry, I misunderstood a bit. Anyway, the process is a continuum, so you 
shouldn't expect that the concurrency model will be available only on 
the day of D2's release. Also, there will be many releases of D2 
following the "gold" release. It's not like once we deploy D2 we just 
start working on D3.

Andrei