Potential GSoC project - GC improvements

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Mar 10 07:24:48 PST 2016


On 3/9/16 10:40 PM, NX wrote:
> I think the best possible improvement for GC is making it lock-free.
> Currently, GC lock cause some serious performance penalties for
> multithreaded code when frequent allocations take place.

I agree. A first step would be easy to do with std.allocator's 
thread-local freelists. -- Andrei



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