On Sunday, October 04, 2015 14:42:48 bitwise via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > Since D is moving towards a phobos with no GC, what will happen > to things that are classes like Condition and Mutex?
Phobos and druntime will always use the GC for some things, and some things just plain need classes. Rather, we're trying to make it so that Phobos does not use the GC when it doesn't need to use the GC as well reduce how much the GC is required for stuff like string processing where lazy ranges can be used instead in many cases. As for Condition and Mutex specifically, I don't know whey they were ever classes except perhaps to take advantage of the monitor in Object. Maybe they'll get changed to structs, maybe they won't, but most D code is thread-local, and most of the code that isn't is going to use message passing, which means that explicit mutexes and conditions are unnecessary. So, most code won't be impacted regardless of what we do with Condition and Mutex. Regardless, I doubt that anything will be done with Condition or Mutex until shared is revisted, which is supposed to happen sometime soon but hasn't happened yet. What happens with shared could completely change how Condition and Mutex are handled (e.g. they don't support shared directly even though they should probably have most of their members marked with shared, because Sean Kelly didn't want to be doing anything with shared that he'd have to change later). - Jonathan M Davis