D hates to be dynamic linked

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Wed Feb 24 00:27:50 PST 2010


Rainer Schuetze wrote:
> Yes, GC is the main issue, as you want to pass gc-collected objects 
> across dll boundaries. I'd say the size of the executables is just a 
> secondary issue, though it would also benefit.

The GC itself doesn't have to be in a dll for this to work. The library 
is already set up to hand off the GC. What it doesn't do at the moment 
is hand off the thread management.



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