Garbage Collection for Systems Programmers

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 07/04/2024 7:09 AM, Sebastian Nibisz wrote:
> On Saturday, 6 April 2024 at 16:49:44 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew 
> Cattermole wrote:
>> Modern GC's tend to need write barriers to make them work.
> 
> Write barrier can be as cheap as a single atomic write.

*can be*

It would need to call into the GC as the strategy until we know what 
implementations need.

It must also be noted that dmd-be doesn't support atomics as intrinsics 
and Walter has been very against adding it, so it would still be a 
function call.