The GC and performance, but not what you expect

[Etienne via Digitalmars-d]

On 2014-06-10 5:53 AM, Adam Sakareassen via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yes my little GC project is coming along.  It allocates much faster in
> multi threaded applications when all threads are competing for the lock.
>   D's current GC is very slow when there is contention for the GC-lock
> which is acquired for every malloc.  The other hidden lock usage is when
> a dynamic array increases in size.  A significant problem is that the
> thread holding the lock might be pre-empted by the OS, causing all
> threads to wait until it is running again.  My lock-free allocator fixes
> all this trouble.

Could you share a fork containing the source code to this? I'm very 
curious as to how you've implemented it.