On Thursday, 10 July 2014 at 19:57:56 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
On Wednesday, 9 July 2014 at 11:21:13 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Adrian:
As for your second question (i.e. how good the GC needs to be
for me), I would probably be satisfied with a GC that matches
the Java one
This will not happen even in one hundred years. So if that's
what you want, you will never be satisfied by D GC.
Actually, I think we can do better than Java, because we have
type qualifiers and less indirection. That isn't unseen: OCaml's
GC is more performant than Java's. We certainly do not have the
resources java has, but we have a language that is way more GC
friendly.
No, you don't. No distinction between GC'ed and non GC'ed
pointers, interior pointers are everywhere, sharing GC'ed memory
between threads is unrestricted, casting to const/immutable might
be officially undefined but in practice abounds so you better
don't take advantage of that, excellent C interop means that you
have no chance but to scan the stacks conservatively.
