Garbage Collection for Systems Programmers

[Sebastian Nibisz]

On Sunday, 7 April 2024 at 09:44:21 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote:
> On Saturday, 6 April 2024 at 19:09:12 UTC, Sebastian Nibisz 
> wrote:
>> Write barrier can be as cheap as a single atomic write.
>
> Again, asking to become even worse than Java

This is better than Java.

> Java's latest new concurrent GC doesn't need write barriers

That's not true.

You either use a write barrier or you stop the world; otherwise, 
it is impossible. All Java GCs use write barriers and pause 
threads. The GC for D can be completely pauseless.