Analysis of D GC

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d]

safety0ff wrote:

> On Monday, 19 June 2017 at 23:39:54 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 10:50:05PM +0000, Adam D. Ruppe via 
>> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>> What is it about Windows that makes you call it a distant possibility? 
>>> Is it just that you are unfamiliar with it or is there some specific OS 
>>> level feature you plan on needing?
>>
>> AFAIK, Windows does not have equivalent functionality to this.
>>
>
> I've read that there is such a function on Windows but you need to use 
> undocumented/unofficial API to access it:
>
> e.g. 
> https://github.com/opencollab/scilab/blob/master/scilab/modules/parallel/src/c/forkWindows.c

it is higly depends of undocumented windows internals, and not portable 
between windows versions. more-or-less working implementations of `fork()` 
were existed at least since NT3 era, but nobody considered 'em as more than 
a PoC, and even next service pack can break everything.