Antti-Ville Tuuainen Passes GSoC Final Evaluation

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-08-23 16:38, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:

> Yes, but parallelization of the mark phase is fairly trivial, and
> something we should probably look into.
>
> The GC will probably always be STW unless we get compiler support for
> inserting GC barriers.

Would a thread local GC be possible, and desirable? To my understanding, 
which is not much, that means the GC will only run in one thread (or 
multiple) and only needs to stop that/those thread(s). That also means 
it only need to search for dead objects in the heap/storage area for 
that particular thread (and where these point to).

If I understand this correctly this would be perfect for D since 
everything is thread local by default.

There's also a global heap for global objects or objects shared between 
threads.

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/Jacob Carlborg