Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption
Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Jun 7 12:10:34 PDT 2016
On 6/7/16 1:19 PM, Wyatt wrote:
> 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.
So you're saying one of the barriers to adoption is no barriers...
-Steve
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