On Sunday, 7 April 2013 at 09:02:25 UTC, Adrian Mercieca wrote:
Incidentally, when you got this speed, what compiler were you
using? dmd?
I was (and still am) using the latest released DMD compiler.
Here's the original thread where I presented the problem and the
solution. Youu probably should read through it to understand what
needs to be done.
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]
Maybe it's time the GC implementation is addressed - or
otherwise, the
whole concept of GC in D should be dropped. To be honest, I'm
perfectly
happy with RAII in C++ and since D supports that fully (even
better IMHO),
I don't really see that much point for GC in a language that is
vying to
become a top systems language.
D without a GC and as fast as C++ ............... that would be
it - the
ultimate IMHO.
Ideally, I think what we need is 1) a better GC since the pros
with using one are very significant, and 2) the ability to
selectively mark sections of code as "off limits" to all GC
dependent code. What I mean by this is that the compiler will
refuse to compile any code that makes use of automated memory
allocations for a @noheap marked section of code.
There's been a proposal to do this that really ought to be taken
seriously
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5219
You'll see there's also related proposals for better fine tuning
through attribute marked sections of code in general, which is
another item that I would like to see implemented one day.
Please vote it up if you agree.
--rt
