Componentizing D's garbage collector

[Rikki Cattermole]

On Wednesday, 15 January 2014 at 21:54:18 UTC, Chris Williams 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 15 January 2014 at 01:55:13 UTC, Rikki Cattermole
> wrote:
>> I really love this idea. However I'm not sure how kernels 
>> would like no sleeping to occur at least by my understanding.
>> It would definitely be a big plus to anything related to gui's.
>
> Sleep allows a thread to give way to another thread within the
> same process. If an app only has one thread, then that should 
> end
> up ceding time to other processes, but the OS is still able to
> perform process switching regardless of whether an application
> ever has all of its threads asleep at once or not.

I'm referring to cpu prioritization. For the process. It'll 
depend heavily on the kernel/config of it however.