The GC and performance, but not what you expect
Rainer Schuetze via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri May 30 01:29:58 PDT 2014
On 29.05.2014 12:09, Atila Neves wrote:
> The GC is preventing me from beating Java, but not because of
> collections. It's the locking it does to allocate instead! I
> don't know about the rest of you but I definitely didn't see that
> one coming.
>
A lock should not be more than a CAS operation that always succeeds in a
single threaded application, but OS overhead might be considerable.
Adam Sakareassen has recently announced a rewrite of the GC that has
lock-free allocations:
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/mailman.655.1399956110.2907.digitalmars-d@puremagic.com
Unfortunately, it isn't available yet...
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