On Thursday, 10 March 2016 at 11:12:47 UTC, thedeemon wrote:
On Thursday, 10 March 2016 at 05:01:37 UTC, Joakim wrote:
Perhaps someone could build off of Sociomantic's concurrent GC
(https://www.sociomantic.com/blog/2013/06/porting-cdgc-to-d2/), which I assume has been ported to D2, porting it to Windows or whatever else remains to be done and then adding to it.
Do you think Windows version of this cdgc is feasible at all?
It relies on fork, something that gets emulated on Windows but
too slowly, as I understand.
I don't know enough about GCs and Windows to say. I'm assuming
it can be done with some effort, but I don't know how much.
Even if it's too much work, it'd be worth it just for POSIX
systems, which make up almost 70% of all general-purpose
computers running apps these days. :)
If it's good enough, it could eventually become the default on
there, while leaving the legacy GC for Windows.
