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

rikki cattermole rikki at cattermole.co.nz
Sat Oct 29 09:44:24 UTC 2022


On 29/10/2022 10:42 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 10/29/2022 2:18 AM, Imperatorn wrote:
>> For anyone reading this, if you want to be a hero and remembered for 
>> all eternity, improve the D GC.
> 
> It's literally impossible for me to stop anyone who wants to improve the 
> GC. It's all open source, and Boost licensed. It's even designed to be 
> pluggable.
> 
> Make a better one, and we'll incorporate it.
> 
> I'll be happy to be shown to be wrong about it.

There is even a low hanging feature that would potentially improve the 
current one on Windows, snapshot support!

(shame I never did find where it needed modifying)


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