Garbage Collector

[Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 19:39:59 UTC, Konstantin wrote:
> Well I’m not sure about the 5% (MS says their write barrier 
> overhead is comparable to the cost of a simple method call, 
> namely 6.4ns: 
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms973852.aspx), but 
> yeah, there’s some tradeoff, for having a good GC.

Even 1% overhead is unacceptable. Again, it's not reasonable for 
a systems language to have people pay for things they're not 
using.

Write barriers will come to D over Walter's dead body.

> By the way, Go implemented those barriers in version 1.5 a year 
> ago: https://blog.golang.org/go15gc

Go has no allocation strategies but the GC, so that point is moot.