D future ...

Jon Degenhardt via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Dec 21 09:57:04 PST 2016


On Wednesday, 21 December 2016 at 14:50:31 UTC, thedeemon wrote:
> On Wednesday, 21 December 2016 at 11:54:35 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko 
> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 21 December 2016 at 11:36:14 UTC, thedeemon 
>> wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 20 December 2016 at 10:18:12 UTC, Kelly Sommers 
>>> wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Bad news: without complete redesign of the language and 
>>> turning into one more C++/CLI (where you have different kinds 
>>> of pointers in the language for GC and non-GC), having C 
>>> performance and Go-style low-pause GC is not really possible. 
>>> You have to choose one. Go chose GC with short pauses but 
>>> paid with slow speed overall and slow C interop. D chose 
>>> C-level performance but paid for it with a slow GC.
>>
>> If this is true, a blog post about it with more details is 
>> very welcome --Ilya
>
> Have you seen this one?
> http://www.infognition.com/blog/2014/the_real_problem_with_gc_in_d.html

A recent blog post regarding the Go garbage collector with 
pertinent info: 
https://medium.com/@octskyward/modern-garbage-collection-911ef4f8bd8e


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