On Thursday, 10 July 2014 at 02:51:05 UTC, logicchains wrote:
I was wondering if thread-local GC had been considered an
option for making D's GC work better in threaded code? Erlang
has this (well, process-local GC, which is closer to
fibre-local in D terms) and it seems to work okay, although I
don't think Erlang allows shared memory between processes.
If this were possible, it would be particularly useful if it
could be combined with nogc to allow the spawning of nogc
threads. These could be used for latency-sensitive work, with
the guarantee that work done in a nogc thread would never be
paused by garbage collection done in other threads.
Very interesting points. There is currently work going on this
topic. Search the forums and I believe you'll find it. Otherwise
I can see if I find something.
