On 2014-05-27 9:06 AM, "Ola Fosheim Grøstad"
<ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com>" wrote:
I think it makes a lot of sense to think in the direction of the post of
Etienne and have allocator based pointer types. With a template heavy
coding style it becomes less problematic than in a language like C. If
you go templates all the way. That could reduce the amount of scanned
memory significantly. Basically I think a system level language should
have at least owned/borrowed, ref counted and gc-pointer types.
I agree about this.
The GC could be optimized under x86_64, with 18,446,744,073,709,551,615
possible values you don't exactly have any computers with 18 exabytes
(18,000 petabytes) of memory. This is a lot of wasted space that could
be used to make the GC lookups at O(1) speed with parallel collection.
