Why is D's GC slower than GO's?

[Walter Bright]

On 10/31/2022 9:46 AM, Adam D Ruppe wrote:
> On Sunday, 30 October 2022 at 02:15:06 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Besides, if it was so easy to do, why has nobody produced a C compiler that 
>> uses a GC instead of malloc/free?
> 
> Well, it has been done with Bohem.

D's GC is very similar to the Boehm one, but more accurate since the D compiler 
provides layout info to the GC.


> But anyway I wrote up my sketch design in my blog:
> http://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-d/Blog.Posted_2022_10_31.html
> It is more like bounds checking than a new type. Sure, I do propose a new type, 
> but just to locally bypass the thing, not as something mandatory. With a 
> compiler switch, you can turn it on or off to experiment with different strategies.

Thanks for doing that. Now, if someone wants to implement it ...