On 6/30/2017 7:54 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 09:14:41AM +0300, Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
On 6/29/2017 10:19 PM, Random D user wrote:
I just got curious, after reading the GC analysis blog post. What
kind of features people generally would want for the GC (in the
distant murky future of 1999)?
Here's some of my nice to haves:
1. Thread local GCs. D is by default thread local, so it kind of
would make sense and goodbye stop everything GC.
Yes, yes and yes. The moment we fix the spec and code that casts
shared to TLS at will.
Hmm. I'm not familiar with the intricacies of shared; could you
elaborate on how casting from shared causes problems with a thread-local
GC? Or is the problem casting *from* shared?
T
Seems like my first post went into aether, sorry if double posting.
The problem is generally with transfer of things from one thread to
another. Currently this is done with good natured casts such as
assumeUnique. The GC needs to be in the know of what is transferred to who.
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Dmitry Olshansky
