On 5/20/15 11:09 AM, Kagamin wrote:
On Wednesday, 20 May 2015 at 13:54:29 UTC, bitwise wrote:
Yes, but D claims to support manual memory management. It seems to get
second class treatment though.
It's WIP. There were thoughts to run finalizers on the thread where the
object was allocated (I doubt it's a good idea, though).
It's essential for lockless thread-local programming.
At this moment, a thread-local-only heap pointer must deal with
multi-threading issues simply because destructors can run on another
thread, even though the reference is thread-local. The biggest example
right now is reference-counted structures such as std.stdio.File.
The absolute best part about the shared qualifier is the lack of shared
qualifier -- you can be certain something isn't shared if it doesn't
have shared attached to it. Right now, even in that case, you still have
to worry about RAII objects being destroyed in other threads. We
shouldn't have to worry about that.
-Steve
