On Tuesday, 21 May 2013 at 04:52:25 UTC, Diggory wrote:
Either way, at least on windows the separate process would have to be persistent as creating a new process has a lot more overhead attached to it than on posix systems. Implicitly creating a child process is also something a D programmer might not want, again this is more windows specific where processes do not have the same strict hierarchy as on posix.
What would be some of the potential downsides of a long-running satellite process?
A concurrent GC would probably be opt-in or opt-out, either way.
