What are your hopes for the future D GC

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 09:14:41AM +0300, Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 6/29/2017 10:19 PM, Random D user wrote:
> > I just got curious, after reading the GC analysis blog post. What
> > kind of features people generally would want for the GC (in the
> > distant murky future of 1999)?
> > 
> > Here's some of my nice to haves:
> > 
> > 1. Thread local GCs. D is by default thread local, so it kind of
> > would make sense and goodbye stop everything GC.
> 
> Yes, yes and yes. The moment we fix the spec and code that casts
> shared to TLS at will.

Hmm.  I'm not familiar with the intricacies of shared; could you
elaborate on how casting from shared causes problems with a thread-local
GC?  Or is the problem casting *from* shared?


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