On Friday, 15 January 2021 at 14:50:00 UTC, welkam wrote:
On Thursday, 14 January 2021 at 18:51:16 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
One can follow the same kind of reasoning for D. It makes no
sense for people who want to stay high level and do batch
programming. Which is why this disconnect exists in the
community... I think.
The reasoning of why we do not implement write barriers is that
it will hurt low level programming. But I feel like if we drew
a ven diagram of people who rely on GC and those who do a lot
of writes trough a pointer we would get almost no overlap. In
other words if D compiler had a switch that turned on write
barriers and better GC I think many people would use it and
find the trade offs acceptable.
Hypothetically, would it be possible for users to supply their
own garbage collector that uses write barriers?
