A separate GC idea - multiple D GCs

rikki cattermole rikki at cattermole.co.nz
Sat Jan 22 13:01:02 UTC 2022


On 23/01/2022 1:39 AM, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
> A forking collector is just not suitable for system level programming, 
> it is very much a solution for a high level programming language running 
> on hardware with lots of headroom.
> 
> If you are going high level, you might as well introduce write barriers 
> for pointer mutation.

Agreed. There is no one size fits all solution.

Having more GC's including ones that require write barriers as an option 
are great things to have!


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