On heap segregation, GC optimization and @nogc relaxing

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On Wednesday, 12 November 2014 at 11:08:41 UTC, ponce wrote:
> I actually tested Haswell HLE and was underwhelmed (not the 
> full STM, was just trying to get more out of some locks).

STM = software based transactional memory (without hardware 
support)

Haswell does not have buffered transactions so you wait for the 
commit, but there are presentations out where Intel has put 
buffered transactions at around 2017… (but I would expect a 
delay).