On 6/7/16 9:29 AM, ketmar wrote:
On Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 13:15:38 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
My opinion, the first optional one to include is the forking GC, since
it has been in production for years for one company. We may even find
some bugs in it to help out Sociomantic, since they have discovered
and helped fix so many problems with D :)
Dicebot even ported it to D2 about year ago. but afair it has some
unsolvable corner cases, like deadlocking if one of the threads is
malloc'ing while forking, or something like that. Dicebot probably knows
better.
Right, but without a way to try it out, you will never get any help. I'm
not sure of Dicebot's preferences, but I can imagine porting
Sociomantic's GC to D2 may not be his preferred task. So doing something
you don't want to do (possibly) with no help doesn't usually lead to a
successful outcome.
I just read elsewhere that a GSoC student is working to achieve the goal
of making the GC swappable and adding Reiner's precise scanning GC. I
consider this to be essential work, I hope we can get this rolling soon!
-Steve
