The GC and performance, but not what you expect

[Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d]

On 05/29/2014 06:06 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

 > The explanation in the comment is that finalizers may spawn a new
 > thread. See
 > 
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/blob/master/src/gc/gc.d#L410 


The strange thing is, finalizers may not even be executed. :-/ I would 
simply change the spec saying "finalizers may not start a new thread."

Getting back to Atila's issue, I would simply comment-out that lock in 
druntime, beat Java, and then put the lock back in. :o)

Ali