Tasks, actors and garbage collection

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Tuesday, 27 April 2021 at 13:29:43 UTC, evilrat wrote:
> And the most important thing - you are free to manage the 
> memory what ever way you want!

That's kinda irrelevant. You can say that for basically any 
language with a C-bridge. Doesn't mean it is cost efficient. If 
it isn't cost efficient, then it isn't competitive. If it isn't 
competitive then it isn't interesting.

And as far as C#/Java/Go goes, D is not going to get memory 
barriers and is therefore going to freeze or significantly slow 
down execution for any reasonable collection scheme during 
collection. (I don't consider fork() reasonable.)

So any argument based on what people do with a GC in C#/Java/Go 
is irrelevant for D.

Can we please focus this discussion on getting a competitive 
memory management scheme?  Reverting to C is not a competitive 
option.