Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

Wyatt via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Jun 7 10:19:16 PDT 2016


On Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 08:05:58 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> So instead of debating this endlessly, I think this is about 
> the tenth time this has come up in the last two years, why 
> doesn't a group of people who know about GC algorithms get 
> together and write a new one?

In addition to the other answers, it's worth noting that most 
every good modern GC algorithm I can think of requires barriers.  
Walter has repeatedly and emphatically declared that D will not 
have barriers, so we're kind of SoL on on that front.  Java and 
Go don't have that problem.

-Wyatt


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