On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 07:43:46 -0800, Jacob Carlborg <d...@me.com> wrote:
On 2011-12-26 15:52, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 12/26/11 6:53 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
What about the parallel/concurrent collector that has been linked a
couple of times in this newsgroup. Would that be possible and a good
idea to implement?
A parallel collector would be, of course, a valuable addition.
Andrei
This is the collector I was referring to:
http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/azul_pauseless_gc.html
The C4 pause-less GC, while very cool, is its own operating system. It doesn't
run on-top of Windows, Linux, Mac, etc. CDGC, on the other hand, is a
concurrent collector that only runs on *nixes. Thread-local GCs are a form of
mostly parallel/concurrent collectors which are a good match for D, but
requires our memory model to support/include regions. There has also been some
work recently in making fully precise collectors for C, which would be directly
applicable to D.
