A thread without GC

[w0rp]

On Monday, 8 July 2013 at 14:04:41 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> I would post this in d.learn, but I suspect there isn't an easy 
> answer so it would be good to have some serious discussion here.
>
> Is there any way to create a thread that is totally free from 
> the garbage collector?
>
> I.e.
> Nothing in that thread will ever be scanned by the GC.
> Therefore, when the GC "stops the world", that thread can just 
> keep on going.
>
> Obviously one could create a separate process, but it would be 
> nice to have it encapsulated within a single process for 
> optimum speed of communication and not having to mess around 
> with pipes.
>
> P.S. Yes I realise how careful one would have to be when using 
> this.


We really need to implement a better GC. That's the very hard but 
better solution.