Shared

[H. S. Teoh]

On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 07:53:56PM +0000, Dominikus Dittes Scherkl via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Thursday, 16 May 2019 at 17:29:25 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
[...]
> Ok, so then a shared object is in fact a specific memory segment. So
> something the GC is already aware of. This makes implementing the
> locking mechanism just more easy. We only need to prevent writing to
> that address, no matter how many references are pointing there. And
> that mechanism is well known in GC's - a write barrier.
[...]

D does not have write barriers, however. And it's unlikely to get one in
the foreseeable future.


T

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