On Thursday, 24 April 2014 at 07:09:27 UTC, Mike wrote:
On Wednesday, 23 April 2014 at 15:33:36 UTC, Orvid King wrote:
After all of that, I intend to include a base draft of the
design of the GC, along with opening the PRs and committing
the starting API. So, is there something I’m missing? Am I
overlooking the obvious? Is there a more practical way to
produce the same results?
What specific problems do you hope to solve with the new
design? Is it only to improve the speed at which the GC runs
to completion on a single pass? What about premptability so
the GC could run as a low priority task, and be interrupted at
any time to run something at a higher priority? Is that out of
scope?
Mike
The goals of my design are to first off reduce the impact of the
GC on D as a whole, I would love it if I could get it down to the
same, or less impact as the MS.net GC. Secondly I want to make
extending, or customizing the GC for each particular use-case
significantly easier. Reducing the number of false positives
would also be a good outcome. Overall I intend to significantly
improve on D's current GC.
