Garbage Collector

[Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 17:03:21 UTC, Konstantin wrote:
>> Two words: write barriers.
>
> What about them? You mean not all D’s target platforms support 
> them?

They're not acceptable for a systems programming language as they 
require you to pay for something that you might not use.

According to our resident GC maintainer (among many other 
things), they would cause a 1%-5% slow down in the language: 
https://github.com/dlang/druntime/pull/1081#issuecomment-69151660