Tasks, actors and garbage collection

[James Lu]

On Tuesday, 20 April 2021 at 09:52:07 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> As computer memory grows, naive scan and sweep garbage 
> collection becomes more and more a burden.
>
> Also, languages have not really come up with a satisfactory way 
> to simplify multi-threaded programming, except to split the 
> workload into many single-threaded tasks that are run in 
> parallel.
>
> It seems to me that the obvious way to retain the easy of use 
> that garbage collection provides without impeding performance 
> is to limit the memory to scan, and preferably do the scanning 
> when nobody is using the memory.

So region-based memory management with per-region GC?