On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 20:22:21 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 19:39:59 UTC, Konstantin wrote:
Well I’m not sure about the 5% (MS says their write barrier
overhead is comparable to the cost of a simple method call,
namely 6.4ns:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms973852.aspx), but
yeah, there’s some tradeoff, for having a good GC.
Even 1% overhead is unacceptable. Again, it's not reasonable
for a systems language to have people pay for things they're
not using.
Write barriers will come to D over Walter's dead body.
Simple exercise. You have 100 000 servers. Your application
suddenly become 1% slower. How angry is your CFO when he
discovers how many new machines he needs to buy ?
