On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 02:52:48 UTC, Etienne Cimon wrote:
I've been looking at the GC and found that the main problem is
that there's no clear information about the pointers. At least
smart pointers have some info inside them but GC pointers are
completely plain 4-8 bytes and nothing else.
The GC is very fast even if it needs to lookup this info but I
believe it wouldn't stay low-cpu in a 128 GB of RAM server with
3GB/s of memory traffic with a wide range of memory segment
sizes.
I think a decent proposal would be to
1- Introduce a new GC pointer type, e.g. a void' (its an
apostrophee) used also in classes which implicitely converts to
void* by removing the last bytes (which ontain the info). This
pointer contains the Pool ID of the underlying memory
I think in SafeD it might be possible to just make this
automatic. I don't see it ever happening in D proper though.
What happens if I pass a dynamic array of pointers to memset?
