Discussion on Go and D

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-04-07 17:41, Manu wrote:
> On 7 April 2012 17:03, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com <mailto:doob at me.com>>
> wrote:
>
>     On 2012-04-06 19:37, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>
>
>         GC issues like this are currently blocking development of Visual
>         D (a
>         Win32 project): when just adding spaces to a file, parsing the
>         new file
>         every other second often needs 10 or more parsings until an
>         equal amount
>         of memory is collected compared to the allocated memory. AFAICT
>         Visual D
>         just keeps a reference to the root of the most recent AST of a
>         source file.
>
>         What's even worse: when the allocated memory gets larger (say >
>         200MB),
>         the garbage collection itself takes more than a second stalling the
>         application, which is a real pain if it happens while you are typing
>         source text (it does happen quite often).
>
>
>     Can you pause the GC when the user is typing? When you're finished
>     with the processing you can start it again.
>
>
> There's a bit of a problem there though, when you're coding, when are
> you NOT typing? :)
> I don't ever stop and sit there patiently for a few seconds for no reason.

It depends. I can do quite a lot of coding without typing. But yeah, I 
type a lot. It would basically turn on and off the GC, probably not good.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg