On Tuesday, 10 April 2018 at 05:26:28 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
On Monday, 9 April 2018 at 19:50:16 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Last I remembered, you were working on a GC prototype for D?
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Still there, but my spare time is super limited lately, the
other project preempted that for the moment.
Any news on that, or have you basically given it up?
Might try to hack to the finish line in one good night, it was
pretty close to complete. Debugging would be fun though ;)
I was thinking about messing with the GC in my free time just
yesterday... how hard would it be:
Add a BlkAttr.THREAD_LOCAL, and set it from the runtime if the
type or it's members are not shared or __gshared.
Then we could store BlkAttr.THREAD_LOCAL memory in different
pages (per thread) without having to setting a mutex. (if we need
to get new page from the global pool we set a mutex for that)
If thats possible we could also Just(TM) scan the current thread
stack and mark/sweep only those pages. (without a stop the world)
And when a thread ends we could give the pages to the global pool
without a mark/sweep.
The idea is it works like it does currently unless something is
invisible to other threads, Or am i missing something obvious?
(quite likely)
