Fiber local GC
Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Jun 25 03:33:00 PDT 2016
Pony has a fiber local GC, which means collection can happen when
the fiber is inactive or even altogether skip collection if the
fiber is short-lived.
Go is currently exploring a Transaction Oriented GC addition to
the concurrent GC it already has:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gCsFxXamW8RRvOe5hECz98Ftk-tcRRJcDFANj2VwCB0/edit
It takes the same viewpoint. A go-routine (fiber) that is
short-lived (like a HTTP request handler) can release everything
in one swipe without collection.
I think this viewpoint is much more efficient and promising than
D's thread-local viewpoint.
What D needs is a type qualifier that keeps data "fiber local"
and possibly a transition mechanism like Pony has for detecting
objects that should be allocated on a global heap (or less
efficiently, "pin objects" that are exported outside the fiber).
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