On Saturday, 22 August 2015 at 10:47:55 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
Out of curiosity, how much funding is required to develop the more straightforward kind of GCs ?
A classical GC like D has is very straightforward. It is been used since the 60s, I even have a paper from 1974 or so describing the implementation used for Simula which is a precise stop-the world GC. Trivial to do.
Or to take what's been done and make it possible for others to use?
Therein is the trouble, a more advanced GC is intrinsically linked to the language semantics and has to be tuned to the hardware. Expect at least 2 years of work for anything approaching state-of-the-art.
In the web server space you wait a lot for I/O so raw performance is not key for Go's success. Stability, memory usage and low latency is more important.
