On Wednesday, 1 February 2017 at 09:40:17 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
On Wednesday, 1 February 2017 at 06:58:43 UTC, osa1 wrote:
I'm wondering what
are the implications of the fact that current GC is a
Boehm-style conservative
GC rather than a precise one, I've never worked with a
conservative GC before.
The GC isn't competitive with the ones you find in GC languages
(Java, Go etc). E.g. Go is now aiming for GC pauses in the
microseconds range.
Resource management in D is rather lacklustre, even C++ does
better imho. D seems to move towards using thread local
ref-counting and making GC optional. I guess that would be ok
on cpus with few cores, but not really adequate on many core
CPUs.
Thanks for the answer. Could you elaborate on the lacklustre
part? It's fine if I have to do manual memory management, but I
don't want any leaks. Ideally I'd have a precise GC + RAII style
resource management when needed.
