On Thursday, 10 March 2016 at 15:24:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 3/9/16 10:40 PM, NX wrote:
I think the best possible improvement for GC is making it
lock-free.
Currently, GC lock cause some serious performance penalties for
multithreaded code when frequent allocations take place.
I agree. A first step would be easy to do with std.allocator's
thread-local freelists. -- Andrei
I was looking into this, but I am slightly hesitant. Should the
gc use something in std.experimental? Or should we think that's
ok?
I also know that there are some people that think we should avoid
using Phobos in druntime.
