DConf 2013 Day 1 Talk 6: Concurrent Garbage Collection for D by Leandro Lucarella

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On Monday, 20 May 2013 at 22:52:33 UTC, Diggory wrote:
> And that would work on all modern OSes, plus you don't have the 
> overhead of creating a new process or even a new thread. Also 
> immutable memory doesn't need to be mapped, the GC thread can 
> access it directly.

Copy on WRITE usually don't happen on immutable memory.