The "no gc" crowd

[deadalnix]

On Wednesday, 9 October 2013 at 15:53:13 UTC, Sean Kelly wrote:
> If the GC can determine whether a block is shared at allocation 
> time, it can allocate the block from a thread-local pool in the 
> unshared case.  So if a collection is necessary, no global stop 
> the world need occur.  Only the current thread's roots are 
> scanned.  It's a huge performance gain in a concurrent program.
>  Particularly in a language like D where data is thread-local 
> by default.

Yes, we have this awesome mecanism and we aren't using it.