Leave GC collection to the user of the D library?
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nise at nise.com
Sun May 9 14:10:48 UTC 2021
On Sunday, 9 May 2021 at 13:53:30 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>
> I don't think that would be enough. The garbage collector needs
> to know of all threads running D code, so that it can scan
> their stack and registers, so that it can know about objects
> the pointer to which exists only in that thread's stack or
> registers.
That's the unfortunate case with D in that case. The otherwise
good FF interoperability of D is hampered by this. Then we are
back to if GC pointers should be an own type or not. Time for the
D3 fork.
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