On Thursday, 14 January 2021 at 13:10:14 UTC, sighoya wrote:
On Thursday, 14 January 2021 at 13:08:06 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
Because Java has a well defined virtual machine with lots of
restrictions.
So you're insisting this isn't possible in D?
It isn't possible in a meaningful way.
In system level programming languages you have to manually uphold
the invariants needed to not break the GC collection algorithm.
So if you change to a significantly different collection model,
the needed invariants will change.
The possible alternatives are:
1. Use "shared" to prevent GC allocated memory from entering
other threads and switch to thread local GC. Then use ARC for
shared.
2. Redefine language semantics/type system for a different GC
model. This will break existing code.
