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

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Tuesday, 21 May 2013 at 04:52:25 UTC, Diggory wrote:
> Either way, at least on windows the separate process would have 
> to be persistent as creating a new process has a lot more 
> overhead attached to it than on posix systems. Implicitly 
> creating a child process is also something a D programmer might 
> not want, again this is more windows specific where processes 
> do not have the same strict hierarchy as on posix.

What would be some of the potential downsides of a long-running 
satellite process?

A concurrent GC would probably be opt-in or opt-out, either way.