Pony has a fiber local GC, which means collection can happen when the fiber is inactive or even altogether skip collection if the fiber is short-lived.

Go is currently exploring a Transaction Oriented GC addition to the concurrent GC it already has:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gCsFxXamW8RRvOe5hECz98Ftk-tcRRJcDFANj2VwCB0/edit

It takes the same viewpoint. A go-routine (fiber) that is short-lived (like a HTTP request handler) can release everything in one swipe without collection.

I think this viewpoint is much more efficient and promising than D's thread-local viewpoint.

What D needs is a type qualifier that keeps data "fiber local" and possibly a transition mechanism like Pony has for detecting objects that should be allocated on a global heap (or less efficiently, "pin objects" that are exported outside the fiber).

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